Mother Jones Quotes

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.

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

I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

I hope that liberty and equality and opportunity lie within your heart because the hopes of millions of Americans depend on it.

The principles for which we stand are the principles of fair play and a square deal for every man and every woman in the United States.

Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.

I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.

We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.

Everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off, because there is worth and goodness in every life... That is the Republican ideal. And if we won't defend it, who will?

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

We're all equal and we should treat each other as such.

You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights of workers, we're in trouble as an inclusive world.

All Americans are taught, and hopefully believe, in the idea that we are all created equal and should be treated that way.

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.

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

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.