Barack Obama Quotes

Here everyone is his own master. Civil liberty places all inhabitants on an equal footing. The humble cannot be oppressed by the mighty, nor the poor by the rich.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

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

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

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.

Without equality there can be no democracy.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

It took America three-quarters of a century of agitation and four years of war to learn the meaning of the word "Liberty." God grant to teach us by easier lessons the meaning of the words, "equal rights.

The only natural society is a society of liberty and equality.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

All men & women are created equal

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

We learn that Comrade [President of South Africa Nelson] Mandela has announced in a speech that he hopes for a bright future in South Africa for ‘liberty’ and ‘equality.’ Anyone who has thought about it realizes that liberty and equality are antithetical concepts. You can have one, or you can have the other, but you certainly cannot have both. As to that, either concept is a rather futile goal. Equality is biologically impossible, and liberty is only obtainable in homogeneous populations very thinly spread.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.