Emma Goldman Quotes

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

Aren't we all human? Don't we all deserve to be respected and treated equally?

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

I think everybody's the same. I think we're all entitled to our space, and I like to treat everybody like that.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

The fundamental democratic principles on which American Society is organized, are those principles of justice and mercy by which the guilty, the ignorant, the needy, and the infirm, are saved and blessed.

I have said that in their right to "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness," as proclaimed in that old Declaration, the inferior races are our equals.

All men are born free. Some are certainly endowed with grater intelligence, stronger will or a greater portion of wealth than others, but that gives them—the cleverer, the stronger, the richer—not the least right to rule over the duller, the weaker, the poorer. God, the Father of us all, has made mankind, without exception, to be happy, and so the obligation is laid on us, as far as is possible, to make each other happy.

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

The more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally.

It's a human right to be able to have a relationship.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

We're all equal and we should treat each other as such.

I just want people to be equal and fair to each other.