Kofi Annan Quotes

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

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

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

Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources.

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

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

We've begun to get justice.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

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

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Justice for all is not to be secured in a day.

… a social right

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 strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

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

The fundamental democratic principles on which American Society is organized, are those principles of justice and mercy by which the guilty, the ignorant, the needy, and the infirm, are saved and blessed.

Equality is the chief groundwork of equity.