Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Real equality is the soul of the state in a democracy

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.

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

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

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

All men & women are created equal

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

I think freedom means freedom for everybody.

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.

I think the negro (sic) is included in the word “men” used in the Declaration of Independence – I believe the declaration that “all men are created equal” is the great fundamental principal upon which are free institutions rest.

In a Constitution for a free people, there can be no doubt that the meaning of ‘liberty’ must be broad indeed.