Edmund Burke Quotes

In the dispensation of justice, no distinction is to be admitted, whether between the man of wealth or the poor man, the master or the slave, the European or the Hottentot.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Equality is a monster.

Rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

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

Equal Rights

Equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens without distinction of color, sex or nationality.

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!

No one enjoys being equal.

To me, everyone is equal.

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

We must keep fighting until using the word 'equality' isn't necessary because we will all be living as one.

I don't care if you're Christian, you're Muslim, you're gay, you're straight - I am here to fight for your equality. Because I believe that we are all born equal, but we are not treated equally, and that is why we must fight.

We'll continue to hold America to the standard it says on paper that we're all created equal because it's not that way right now. But we're going to keep pushing towards that.

Everyone is beautiful, and the world isn't equal - and we need to fight towards that.