Suzan DelBene Quotes

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Equal Rights

Rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

Government should not deny to any of its citizens that which it gives to other citizens.

I believe the time has come for equal rights for everyone in this country, even for white people.

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

Achieving legal rights is only a first step in achieving equality.

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities…. This nation … will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

We'll continue to hold America to the standard it says on paper that we're all created equal because it's not that way right now. But we're going to keep pushing towards that.

I certainly believe in equal rights.

We still have work to do in our efforts to advance equal rights for all Americans.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

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

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.

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

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

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

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

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.