Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.

It's so refreshing when I walk in and see a bunch of Asian actresses all competing for the same role because it makes me feel like I have a genuine shot.

We are all about the equality through society and sport.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

There's place and means for every man alive.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

The advantages and privileges which have hitherto enjoyed by the few shall be far more widely shared by the many.

… the great equalizer.

In America, opportunity and equality are not a zero-sum game

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores

We [Chicago] are known as the city that works. You gotta make sure it works for everybody and not just a few.

Democrats are fighting to make sure that everyone, no matter your background, has a chance to get ahead.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

As Americans, I think we really believe that with the meritocracy that exists in our country, the equality of opportunity is so important to the foundation of our culture and our society.