Donna Brazile Quotes

Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

It took America three-quarters of a century of agitation and four years of war to learn the meaning of the word "Liberty." God grant to teach us by easier lessons the meaning of the words, "equal rights.

The march to freedom is irreversible.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

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.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

In 1965, I marched for equality.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

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

There is nobody on this planet who was ever liberated by an athlete or an entertainer.

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!

Here everyone is his own master. Civil liberty places all inhabitants on an equal footing. The humble cannot be oppressed by the mighty, nor the poor by the rich.

I want you to leave here with a sense of mission. Martin Luther King is waiting for you to march with him.

Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

I don't care if you're Christian, you're Muslim, you're gay, you're straight - I am here to fight for your equality. Because I believe that we are all born equal, but we are not treated equally, and that is why we must fight.

Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.