Quotes About Equality

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.