Henry A. Wallace Quotes

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

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

Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community to participate in the decisions and institutions that shape their lives must be continually debated, safeguarded, and preserved at all costs.

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

If you want peace work for justice.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

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

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready.

If you want peace, work for justice.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.