Jerry Brown Quotes

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.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

I've worked for everything I've had, and I can't think of a better way of using it than standing up for what's right, and what's required to build a better society.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

I stand up for all rights.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

… a social right

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

Ted Kennedy’s life’s work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections. It was to give a voice to those who were not heard, to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity, to make real the dream of our founding.

The vision of Israel's prophets became the pillar of fire leading the struggle in support of the weak and the different towards equality.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

I'm trying to fight so that people can have better.

For sure, I think that's the mission in all life, whether it's basketball, being a doctor, building a company. I think we take social justice and the lessons we're learning now, that everybody is learning.

I really am focused on making sure we're doing everything we can so every single person in our country... has the right to thrive... and live in a just and equitable society.

I'm ready to do any kind of work, as long as it absorbs my passion for making a just world and equal world.

I am passionate about human rights.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

Freedom is not enough.