George T. Conway III Quotes

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

The language is, "We the people"; not we the white people, not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low, but we the people; not we the horses, sheep, and swine, and wheelbarrows, but we the people, we the inhabitants [of America; and if Negroes are people, they are included in the benefits for which the Constitution of America was ordained and established.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move closer to that promise, little by little, one day at a time. It may not be easy - but we'll get there together.

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality. That's what I'm trying to do with immigration. If what the founding fathers said is true, that we are all equal, then let's fight for that.

I want to live in a Britain where there is a shared belief in freedom and democracy, and equal rights for men and women.

America belongs to all of us. The promise of America belongs to all of us.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

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.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

The United States is a country of freedom that looks primarily after the rights of all of its citizens, of all religions and races, despite the problems in application that manifest themselves from time to time.

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

We are a nation without classes or special privileges.

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!

The rights, privileges and responsibilities of full American citizenship. This is all that the Negro asks. He will not willingly accept less. As long as America offers less, she will be that much less a democracy. The whole way is the American way

America’s history is a continual process of trying to live up to our ideals, falling short, succeeding in some places and trying again others

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.