Benjamin Whichcote Quotes

I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not.

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

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

You can only be free if I am free.

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.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

No people will be truly free until all are free.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other mans freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

Each wants to be free, but none can succeed in obtaining freedom unless all are permitted to enjoy it

Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of the poor Only as free as a padlocked prison door Only as strong as our love for this land Only as tall as we stand!

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

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

No one is free until we are all free.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.