This essay will talk about the meanings of freedom, equality and justice. It will also address why these ideas are important, exploring the context of these meanings. . The word liberalism comes from the Latin word “liber,” which means a class of free men (Heywood, 2012). According to Hoffman and Graham (2015), liberalism has become the dominant ideology in the world (Hoffman and Graham, 2015). Liberalism prioritizes the “right” over the “good” (Heywood, 2012). The concept of political freedom is strongly related to the concept of civil liberties and human rights. The basis of democratic society is that the state must defend the freedom of every citizen with any available resources, whether institutional, legal or moral. Liberalism has a set of principles. Justice is about giving someone what they deserve (Heywood, 2012). According to Heywood (2012), “justice is a moral standard of fairness and impartiality…” (Heywood, 2012, p. 33). The liberal theory of justice is based on the belief in equality (Heywood, 2012). Equal opportunities means that employment and services should be equally accessible to all. The two principles of justice must correspond to society's judgments of what is just and what is unjust (Farrelly, 2004). The fundamental idea of ​​John Rawls, a leading political philosopher, was that justice was a demand for fairness. Fairness is a demand for impartiality (Sen, 2010). His work, Theory of Justice (1970), is based on the idea of ​​justice and fairness and argues that this is the basic structure of society (Hoffman & Graham, 2015). Rawls presents justice as fairness as a “political conception of justice” (Farrelly, 2004). In his Theory of Justice there are two fundamental principles of justice. The first is equal liberty, meaning every individual has the right to free speech, to vote and to a fair trial. The second are equal opportunities and the difference principle (Hoffman & Graham, 2015). It is also known as distributive economic justice. Rawls argues that although all human beings are born equal, they sometimes end up being unequal due to the social circumstances in which they grow up and the different opportunities they obtain (Boucher & Kelly, 2009). These different circumstances can lead to unequal earnings and wealth distribution. Income inequality undermines the goal of equal opportunities. Child poverty is a global problem, according to the National Equality Panel (Child Poverty Action Group) report,