Frank Herbert Quotes

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Freedom is not enough.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

I hope that liberty and equality and opportunity lie within your heart because the hopes of millions of Americans depend on it.

There can be no equality of opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.

You know, you work hard but play by the rules, you can rise. You can do well. That's what we're taught. That's what we believe. That's what we think of as America. Problem is, there are just generations of people in this country who do not think that.

Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.