Michelle Obama Quotes

All for the People and All by the People; Nothing About the People Without the People - That is Democracy!

In a democracy, there should be representation from every field.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.

We will uphold absolute social and political equality for all its citizens without distinction of religion, race or sex…. We urge Arabs to take part in the building of the state on the basis of full and equal citizenship and on the basis of appropriate representation in all its institutions, provisional and permanent.

Liberty and equality ... will best be attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

I think that there is not any group of people in this country who do not believe that they should be a part of the process.

The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Minority rights are just as important as majority decisions.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.