Donna Brazile Quotes

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

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

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

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.

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

… a social right

Equal Rights

Civil rights are meaningless without economic rights.

I believe the time has come for equal rights for everyone in this country, even for white people.

Equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens without distinction of color, sex or nationality.

I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.

I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I have faith to believe that ere long equal justice will be granted to the poor Indians and the Chinese.

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.

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

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

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal rights and civil rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.