Harvey Milk Quotes

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

All Americans are kings.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

I have said that in their right to "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness," as proclaimed in that old Declaration, the inferior races are our equals.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.

Everyone is born free and equal.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

All men are created equal.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, in matters spiritual and temporal is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature, as well as by the laws of nations and all well-grounded and municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.