Arthur Levitt Quotes

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

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.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

I demand simple justice. I am not here as beggar. I do not care so far as I am personally concerned whether you give me a seat or not. I will go back to my people and come here again.

Government should not deny to any of its citizens that which it gives to other citizens.

Say no to politicians who sacrifice the interests of individual investors to corporate interests.

I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.

I take it that any statute which is not equal to all, and which deprives any citizen of civil rights, which are secured to other citizens, is an unjust encroachment upon his liberty; and it is in fact a badge of servitude which by the Constitution is prohibited

All men are equal; it is not their birth, but virtue itself that makes the difference

God made all men, and he did not make some to crawl on hands and knees and others to ride upon their backs.

My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

Each one of our ideas should benefit the people with less power than us.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

We repudiate the rights of a privileged class, and uphold the rights of a privileged race.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

I am a gentleman. I live by robbing the poor.