Quotes about Equality
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
— Margaret Mead
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
— Nelson Mandela
The sun shines even on the wicked.
— Seneca
My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.
— Victor Hugo
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
— Charles Dickens
The sun also shines on the wicked.
— Seneca
People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.
— JM Coetzee
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
— Jack Kerouac