Henry Grattan Quotes

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

The rights of all of us are diminished when the rights of any one of us are threatened.

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

No people will be truly free until all are free.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man—this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position—discarding our standards that we have left us. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal... I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

Roman Catholics shall not enjoy the rights of freemen.

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?”

I would not have the Roman Catholics persecuted at all. I would only have them hindered from doing hurt. I would not put it in their power to cut the throats of their quiet neighbors.

As men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as Protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman-Catholic fellow subjects

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

We must keep fighting until using the word 'equality' isn't necessary because we will all be living as one.

We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.