Barack Obama Quotes

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

Equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens without distinction of color, sex or nationality.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

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

We are a nation of minorities. In a nation of minorities, you can’t cherry-pick rights.

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

… equal social dignity of all citizens irrespective of sex, race, language, religion, political opinions or social of personal status.

People need to see signs of equal treatment across society.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

We do not have the right to discriminate against people.

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

I certainly believe in equal rights.

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

I just believe in equality for all.

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

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.