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Quotes About Freedom

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.
~ Bernie Sanders
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
~ Langston Hughes
You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
~ Nina Simone
I don't hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
~ James K. Polk
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
~ David Allan Coe
All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!
~ Maria W. Stewart
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
~ Charles Dickens
There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
~ Frances Wright
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
~ Malcolm X
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
~ John Marshall
Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.
~ Bob Marley
The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
~ Max Eastman
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
~ Thomas Paine
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
~ William Dean Howells
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
~ John Dewey
Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
~ Will Durant
I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.
~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
~ Unknown
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers