London Breed Quotes

Australians want progression, Australians want equal rights, they want safer, more compassionate, more harmonious communities, and we're not allowing it to progress in that way. It's very disappointing, knowing Tony Abbott's conservative views, he's clearly not the person to be leading Australia in the present or the future.

The Democratic Party is always going to be the party of civil rights and fairness - everybody gets an equal, fair shot at the American dream. And we're going to be the party that really fights to protect planet Earth - enjoy whatever time we're going to get!

We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity.

I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.

I am proud to be a progressive.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

I am a liberal. I want everyone to be well.

In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.

The story of America is the story of an ever widening circle of human care and responsibility.

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.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.