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Quotes About Equality

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
~ Peter Singer
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
~ Abraham Lincoln
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
~ Thomas Hobbes
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
~ Confucius
I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.
~ Christine Lahti
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
~ Taslima Nasrin
The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.
~ Cesar Chavez
Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.
~ Mercedes Ruehl
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
~ Steve Martin
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
~ Ayn Rand
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
~ Millard Fillmore
No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.
~ Harry Bridges
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.
~ Dale Spender
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.
~ James Weldon Johnson
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
~ Ruth Benedict
Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.
~ Harold Laski
If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.
~ Athol Fugard
The proper study of mankind is woman.
~ Henry Adams
The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.
~ Wei Wu Wei
All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.
~ Hans Arp
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
~ Anatole France
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
~ Philip Yancey
I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.
~ Oren Lyons