Quotes about Equality
The wealthiest man among us is the best
— William Wordsworth
Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
— Gloria Steinem
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
— Henry David Thoreau
Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
— Albert Schweitzer
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
— Aristotle
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
— Edmund Burke
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
— Epicurus
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.
— Frederick Douglass
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
— George Eliot
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
— Henry David Thoreau
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
— Tertullian