Freedom And Equal Rights Quotes

#1. Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

Ben Nelson

#3. I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Audre Lorde

#4. While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.

Michael Huffington

#5. I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#6. We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

Sima Samar

#7. I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

John Coltrane

#8. If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

Hal Sparks

#9. EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.

Abner Cole

#10. You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.

Ron Paul

#11. There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#12. Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly "free" state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.

Tiffany Madison

#13. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

Milton Friedman

#14. We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.

Jay Parini

#15. The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

Suzanne La Follette

#16. Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.

Dave Champion

#17. I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

Farah Diba

#18. The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

David Souter

#19. It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.

Robertson Davies

#20. This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#21. When you don't do your job, you get fired. That's your warning.

Mallory Monroe

#22. The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.

Janelle Gray

#23. 7but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;

Anonymous

#24. The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

Helene Deutsch

#25. The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.

Jimmy Carter

#26. Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#27. We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.

Allan Dare Pearce

#28. When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless,
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen,
I might not be the same, but that's not important.
No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it.

Macklemore

#29. People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom.

Chris Christie

#30. If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.

Auliq Ice