Emily Thornberry Quotes

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.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

I don't work for the rich and powerful. I work for people!

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

All of us, as citizens, need to kind of get over our classisms and vote for the betterment of us all.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let's make this a true land of opportunity.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

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

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

We must be thoroughly democratic and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

In our insistence upon equality of opportunity has our system advanced beyond all the world.

... we ought as Legislatures to meet with national feelings, and our Legislation ought to be for the general good; and as far as practicable equity & justice to all sections of our country.

I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.

Liberty … is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.