Patrick J. Kennedy Quotes

I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.

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

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

… a social right

Create power for the powerless.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

We seek not just freedom, but opportunity … not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

If you wish the Jews to become better men and useful citizens, then banish every humiliating restriction, open to them every avenue of gaining a livelihood.

America wins when the voiceless have a seat at the table, when the vulnerable are protected, and when working families have the same political clout as the wealthy.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

I want every person in New South Wales, no matter where they live, to feel that they have the choices and the opportunities to be their best.

I'm trying to fight so that people can have better.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

I really am focused on making sure we're doing everything we can so every single person in our country... has the right to thrive... and live in a just and equitable society.

I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.

What I think is that we should be helping people so they can reach an even greater potential.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.

All of us, we deserve to survive.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.