Eugene V. Debs Quotes

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not.

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.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.

I can't speak for the rest, but I think the little India all of us carry in our hearts should be good enough for us individually to take a step to help ensure that same freedom and justice that our constitution guarantees is given to all.

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

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

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

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

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