Herbert Read Quotes

I can't speak for the rest, but I think the little India all of us carry in our hearts should be good enough for us individually to take a step to help ensure that same freedom and justice that our constitution guarantees is given to all.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

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

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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.

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

The motive power of democracy is love.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

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

We believe in freedom for our neighbors across the street or across the seas---the same freedom we expect for ourselves.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served. Let us learn rather to love one another.

Our Christian civilization will have to Christianize itself in a hurry. It will have to dedicate itself to the proposition that men are men before they are Englishmen, businessmen, workingmen, or Americans, and that all men are brothers.... This proposition, always popular on Sundays, requires the subordination of Americanism to Humanity.

The only possible alternative to being either the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all.