Jill Stein Quotes

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

The Negro claims, as a matter of simple justice, his full share in America's economic and social life. He sees adequate employment opportunities as a chief means of attaining this goal

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

Our aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispension in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour—constitutional, social and economic.

A man does not have to like me to work by my side, or in my employ or to be my next-door neighbor. But he does not have the right to limit my opportunities for employment or my choice of housing.

We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result.

Equality is the chief groundwork of equity.

Here, no privileged orders – no factitious distinctions in society – no hereditary nobility – no royal prerogatives exist, to interpose barriers between the people, and to create distinct classifications in society. All men being considered as enjoying an equality of rights, the propriety and necessity of dispensing, without distinction, the blessings of education ….

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

I will not accept anybody’s claim that they are striving for equal rights for women when they refuse to agree to a radical redistribution of work—both gainful employment and unpaid work [in the home].

I have always been for absolute equality of privileges and obligations.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.

We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.

Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.

I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights. In general, I would apply that to all nationalities and all races. I think we do need more awareness, generosity, and compassion than we have right now. But in terms of feminism, I embrace it wholeheartedly. Not in a kind of militant way, but I've always known that it matters.

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.

It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights...