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  • I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

  • Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.103, Rajpal & Sons
  • We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

    Malala Yousafzai's speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.
  • From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

    Freedom   Spring   Blow  
    Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile
  • Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

  • True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”
  • A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

  • ... we should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure for the freedom and equality of the races and the sexes.

  • Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

    Enemy   Unions   Utopia  
    Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster
  • Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.

    Rip   Believe   Men  
    Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois
  • With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

    Peter Drucker (2017). “The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.40, Routledge
  • Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

  • I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

    Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan
  • Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

  • They have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice.

    "The new world order". Book by Pat Robertson, 1991.
  • There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

    "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.
  • The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

    Equality   Race   Unesco  
  • Men in America were terrified that if women got an equal say in society, the system would collapse and their lives would be valued less. Whites in America were scared that if blacks obtained their freedom and equality, the system would collapse and their lives would be devalued. Heterosexuals are terrified that the psychotic institution of marriage will collapse if gays are given their right to marry. And humans are terrified that if animals are liberated and no longer viewed as inferior subordinates, human life will be valued less.

    Gay   Men   Animal  
    Source: www.all-creatures.org
  • Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

  • My main fight is for freedom and equality.

    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

    I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
  • Let's distinguish between freedom and equality. The modern American woman may be more liberated sexually than her mother was, but I don't think she enjoys a bit more sexual equality. The American male continues to use her sexually for one thing: a means to the end of his own ejaculation.

    Mother   Mean   Thinking  
  • We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

    War   Race   Drug  
    Campaign address, Brooklyn, New York, November 1, 1940.
  • Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

    Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan
  • I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.

    Source: www.thedailybeast.com
  • The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

    Real   War   Fighting  
    "The hidden history of Muhammad Ali" by David Zirin, www.isreview.org. January 2004.
  • If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.

    Country   Good Life   Men  
    Source: www.heavenonearthdocumentary.com
  • 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.

    Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”
  • As Western Muslims and American Muslims, we need to understand that the values and principles we promote are not only Muslim values. American Muslims live in a country where justice, dignity, freedom and equality are essential values.

    Country   Justice   Needs  
    "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.
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