Quotes About Equality

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

Truth cannot be partial; it is for the good of all. Finally

Love one another". What for? That doctrine was preached, but the explanation is here. Why should I love every one? Because they and I are one. Why should I love my brother? Because he and I are one. There is this oneness; this solidarity of the whole universe. From the lowest worm that crawls under our feet to the highest beings that ever lived – all have various bodies, but are the one Soul.

Inequality is the very basis of creation. At the same time the forces struggling to obtain equality are as much a necessity of creation as those which destroy it.

And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard.

They Laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at them because they all are the same.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others. We talk foolishly against material civilisation. The grapes are sour.

To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off.

In the 1930s, he came up with an approach he calls "earned and deserved.""I believe, in order to be fair to all students, a teacher must give each individual student the treatment he earns and deserves. The most unfair thing to do is to treat all of them the same.

People are not the same—it is unnatural to pretend they are.

las personas son mucho más productivas cuando sienten que son parte de un equipo. Debe ser una fuerza colectiva. Nadie debería estar por encima de alguien más".

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

when the createdness of the other person is not viewed as necessary as our own—then there is no reason (beyond expediency) to treat the other as a person. All injustice and cruelty come, basically, from this distorted view of reality.

Just as communism always begins with an appeal to "humanity" and equality" and ends with inhuman despotism, so does fascism always begin with an appeal to "nationalism" and "individualism," and ends with a military collectivism far worse than the disease it purports to cure.

In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?… Under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy, and sell, and torture?

All who have died are equal." –Comanche Indian proverb

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.