B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

I Burchard, bishop of the church of Worms, on account of the strenuous lamentations of the wretched, and the frequent schemes of those many people who tear like dogs at the familia of St. Peter, imposing various laws on them and oppressing the weaker among them by their judgments; with the advice of the clergy and knights and the whole familia I have ordered that these laws be written down, so that no advocate or agent or official or any other person among them may impose on the familia anything new; rather, let it be known before everyone that there is one and the same law, common to rich and poor alike.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

The USA was founded in the name of democracy, equality and individual freedom, but is failing to deliver the fundamental promise of protecting rights for all.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

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

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

The purpose of the bill ... is to destroy all these discriminations.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift.

Equal Rights

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Do equall Law and right to all the King's Subjects rich and poor.

Equal justice to the South, it is said, requires us to consent to the extension of slavery to new countries [states]. That is to say, inasmuch as you do not object to my taking my hog to Nebraska, therefore I must not object to your taking your slave. Now, I admit this is perfectly logical, if there is no difference between hogs and negroes.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave.

We must strip away slogans such as “states’ rights.” We must attach the “wrongs” of society.

Freedom and equality! They are not to be found on the earth below or in heaven above. The stars on high are not alike, and all obey an iron-like law.