Equal Access Quotes

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

Net neutrality rules ensure an equal playing field on the web for everyone, from the start-up to the tech giant.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success.

We are all about the equality through society and sport.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

Education should be a fundamental human right.

Americans overwhelmingly believe that Americans who want to do jobs, who are looking for work, should have a fair opportunity, if not a preference, to do that work.

Federal government has been a gateway to the middle class for people of color for generations.

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

I think net neutrality needs to be explored in a broader sense.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.

In Estonia, our greatest national treasure is our egalitarian educational system.

Where the effects of past discrimination persist, society has an obligation to take positive steps to overcome the legacy of injustice. Judiciously administered affirmative action programs in education and employment can be important expressions of the drive for solidarity and participation that is at the heart of true justice. Social harm calls for social relief.

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others”, and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through the those gates.

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

Government can't do everything, but there is a role for government and smart policy, especially in equalizing opportunities for folks.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his child must be what the community wants for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; it destroys our democracy.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.