Hozier Quotes

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

The tensions between order and liberty, between opportunity and social justice will always be there, but that’s freedom.

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.

The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.

We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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.

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

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

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.

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.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.