Michelle Lujan Grisham Quotes

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

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

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

America is a dirty rag if it will not protect all of its citizens.

... all good Americans, while verbally asking for nothing but equal rights, ... interpret the phrase so that equal rights become equivalent to special rights.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

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

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights