Hannah Arendt Quotes

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

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

Equal Rights

One man’s right is every man’s right.

I recognize no rights but human rights—I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I have faith to believe that ere long equal justice will be granted to the poor Indians and the Chinese.

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

Here everyone is his own master. Civil liberty places all inhabitants on an equal footing. The humble cannot be oppressed by the mighty, nor the poor by the rich.

There is what I call the American idea. I so name it, because it seems to me to lie at the basis of all our truly original, distinctive, and American institutions. It is itself a complex idea, composed of three subordinate and more simple ideas, namely: The idea that all men have unalienable rights; that in respect thereof, all men are created equal; and that government is to be established and sustained for the purpose of giving every man an opportunity for the enjoyment and development of all these unalienable rights. This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government after the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake, I will call it the idea of Freedom.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

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

Every single American deserves to be treated equally by their fellow Americans and under the law.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

All men are created equal.

Treating one bunch of people this way, and treating this bunch that way. You can't do that. You have to give everybody the same rights.