Nelson A. Miles Quotes

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

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.

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

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

Prosperity need not come at the expense of this country's proudest traditions as a beacon of justice.

We live in a great state filled with creative, community minded, hard-working, decent people. And what they want from us is opportunity, possibility and hope.

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

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.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

Every single day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.

I stand up for all rights.

I'm not going to fearmonger to win an election. I'm going to focus on the positive opportunities we have for a bright future for all of our families, where everyone has the freedom and opportunity to thrive.

I am passionate about human rights.

I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

All of us, we deserve to survive.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

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.

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.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.