Reuven Rivlin Quotes

I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

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

America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry, and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal. As CEO of Merck, and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

My upbringing was faith-based, but we believed you should love all others as you want to be loved, because everyone should be treated equally. That's helped me have an understanding of people on different journeys and in different walks of life. At the end of the day, we're all the same, because we all want to be loved.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

We must be thoroughly democratic and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great.

Anti-Jewish politics will end only when those who practice it accept the democratic values of religious pluralism and political choice—or are forced to pay a high enough price for flouting them.

In today's restless world, America needs to identify with the quest for universal human dignity, a dignity that embodies both freedom and democracy but also implies respect for cultural diversity.

Whether we come from poverty or wealth; whether we are Afro-American or Irish-American; Christian or Jewish, from big cities or small towns, we are all equal in the eyes of God. But as Americans, that is not enough, we must be equal in the eyes of each other. We can no longer judge each other on the basis of what we are, but must, instead, start finding out who we are. In America, our origins matter less than our destinations and that is what democracy is all about.

I really believe in being egalitarian.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.