Quotes About Opportunity

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.