John Hickenlooper Quotes

They are against nature and the principles of liberty

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

Liberty resides in the rights of those people whose views we find most odious.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

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

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Americans should be free to make their own choice of life styles and private habits without being subject to discrimination or persecution.

Minorities should be free from any kind of insecurity.

I hold no views which any conservative citizen might not entertain on slavery...trading slaves is against humanity, unjust, and impolitic.

We shall be inconsistent with ourselves if, after boasting of having opened an asylum for the oppressed of all nations … we make the terms of admission to the full enjoyment of that asylum so hard as is now proposed.