Estonia Quotes

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

I really am focused on making sure we're doing everything we can so every single person in our country... has the right to thrive... and live in a just and equitable society.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

Create power for the powerless.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

We seek not just freedom, but opportunity … not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

We not only need community development but we need equitable development.

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

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

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.