Emma Lazarus Quotes

No people will be truly free until all are free.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

The rights of all of us are diminished when the rights of any one of us are threatened.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

We must keep fighting until using the word 'equality' isn't necessary because we will all be living as one.

No one is free until we are all free.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

I consecrate my life to the abolition of slavery.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.