Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

I hope that liberty and equality and opportunity lie within your heart because the hopes of millions of Americans depend on it.

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.

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. The right to play on any playing field? You have earned it. The right to study in any school? You have earned it. The right to hold a job? You have earned it. The right to anyone's neighbor? You have earned it.

This is not a question of expediency, but of right. In antebellum days the proposition was not, “Are the blacks good enough to be free?” but, “Have they the right?” So today the question is not, “Will outrages result from freeing humanity?” but, “Has it the right to life, the means of life, the opportunities of happiness?”

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

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

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

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

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

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

Freedom is not enough.

The principles for which we stand are the principles of fair play and a square deal for every man and every woman in the United States.

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!

All men are born free. Some are certainly endowed with grater intelligence, stronger will or a greater portion of wealth than others, but that gives them—the cleverer, the stronger, the richer—not the least right to rule over the duller, the weaker, the poorer. God, the Father of us all, has made mankind, without exception, to be happy, and so the obligation is laid on us, as far as is possible, to make each other happy.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

The American Dream

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.