Equal Freedom Institute

Liberalism isn’t a partisan value. It’s America’s creed: liberty, equality, and consent of the governed.

Liberalism isn’t a partisan value. It’s America’s creed: liberty, equality, and consent of the governed.

"My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right. And if wrong, to be set right." - Carl Schurz

Conservatism clings to hierarchy and tradition. Liberalism trusts equality and reason. The Declaration chose liberalism. So should we.

America was born in a declaration of liberal values. Defending those values is the most patriotic act of all.

The promise of America: freedom that lifts everyone, not freedom that steps on others.

Liberalism = America. It existed before Democrats or Republicans, and it will outlast them too.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees ‘the equal protection of the law’ to every citizen.

Equality in liberty means that each person should enjoy as much liberty as is compatible with the liberty of others, and may do anything which does not
distrain on the equal liberty of others.

There is one form only of equality — equality in the right to liberty — which is not only compatible with liberalism but actually demanded by its view
of freedom.

No one is born a ruler. No one is born inferior. Equality is the first American truth.

Voluntary associations—neighbors working together freely—are the beating heart of democracy.

Real power comes from the bottom up—from citizens, not rulers; from communities, not corporations.

Liberal values are American values. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, equality before the law—patriotism means defending them.

From Thomas Paine to MLK, America’s greatest heroes were liberals fighting for freedom and equality.

Loving your country means loving its ideals. Justice. Liberty. Equality. That’s what liberalism stands for. That’s what patriotism is.

Equal Freedom is Fair treatment under the law.
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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” - Thomas Paine

"Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders." - Diane Nash

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." - John Quincy Adams

"The most important thing for people is to be in charge of their own lives." - E.F. Schumacher

JFK's quote on what it means to be a Liberal during 1960 nomination speech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4iQ...

“The stability of the large world house which is ours will involve a revolution of values to accompany the scientific and freedom revolutions engulfing the earth. We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing’-oriented society to a ‘person’-oriented society.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” — Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." - John Milton

Its central concept is that of individual rights, diversity of interests, decentralization of authority, freedom of conscience.” - Roger Nash

“Liberalism as a body of doctrine, derived from the use of the word ‘liberal,’ denotes a departure from the established institutions, standards and dogmas in an effort to change them for what is regarded as less authoritative and freer from tradition.

"The challenge is to understand how to foster collective action and mutual governance rather than the top-down approach of government or market mechanisms." - Elinor Ostrom

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down." - Frederick Douglass