Barack Obama Quotes

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.

The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores

Equality is truly sweet.

We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

One man’s right is every man’s right.

We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result.

Equality is the chief groundwork of equity.

The promise of our country is that the rules are fair.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

The idea of freedom is quite in accord with a general, though vague, sentiment among us; it is an idea of fair play, of giving everyone a chance; and nothing arouses more general and active indignation among our people than the belief that some one or some class is not getting a fair chance.

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

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.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

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.

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.