Quotes About Equality

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do.

No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men will feel what it is to be a woman.

You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

Show him your soft side too. Being too pretty and smart... Guys don't like when a woman is better than a man.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.