Mike Lowry Quotes

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

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

We seek not just freedom, but opportunity … not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

We not only need community development but we need equitable development.

I am committed to leveling the playing field and expanding opportunity to all.

People need to see signs of equal treatment across society.

The idea of bringing equality not just to entertainment but to every walk of life - I think it's very important.

I really am focused on making sure we're doing everything we can so every single person in our country... has the right to thrive... and live in a just and equitable society.

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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.

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

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

… a social right

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

Our aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispension in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour—constitutional, social and economic.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.