Martin Schulz Quotes

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

This democracy is shaped by equality of opportunity.

Democrats believe in a New South because no matter your race, immigration status, income, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity, we all have the same aspirations for high-quality education, jobs, neighborhoods, health care, and retirement.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

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

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.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Without equality there can be no democracy.

Real equality is the soul of the state in a democracy

Liberty and equality ... will best be attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

I hope that liberty and equality and opportunity lie within your heart because the hopes of millions of Americans depend on it.

We are a nation without classes or special privileges.

Here, no privileged orders – no factitious distinctions in society – no hereditary nobility – no royal prerogatives exist, to interpose barriers between the people, and to create distinct classifications in society. All men being considered as enjoying an equality of rights, the propriety and necessity of dispensing, without distinction, the blessings of education ….

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

The function of democratic living is not to lower standards but to raise those that have been too low.

We [Chicago] are known as the city that works. You gotta make sure it works for everybody and not just a few.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions.