Binyamin Applebaum Quotes

Equal Rights

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.

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

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

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.

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

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

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.

… a social right

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

… the great equalizer.

Achieving legal rights is only a first step in achieving equality.

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

I want to make things equal.

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.

We still have work to do in our efforts to advance equal rights for all Americans.

I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.

My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

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

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.