B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

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

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The rights of all of us are diminished when the rights of any one of us are threatened.

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

As a survivor of the 20th-century Race Wars, my back remains unbent, and I move forward for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all who were created equal in God's eyes.

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

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