Quotes About Equality

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He has no superior. He

It is the Forgotten Man who is threatened by every extension of the paternal theory of government. It

Rights do not pertain to results, but only to chances. They

The fact that my neighbor has succeeded in this struggle better than I constitutes no grievance for me. Certain

The men who have not done their duty in this world never can be equal to those who have done their duty more or less well. If

Every improvement in education, science, art, or government expands the chances of man on earth. Such expansion is no guarantee of equality. On

Now who is the Forgotten Man? He is the simple, honest laborer, ready to earn his living by productive work. We pass him by because he is independent, self-supporting, and asks no favors. He does not appeal to the emotions or excite the sentiments. He

They are men who have no superiors, by

A free man in a free democracy has no duty whatever toward other men of the same rank and standing, except respect, courtesy, and good-will. We

If we pull down those who are most fortunate and successful, shall we not by that very act defeat our own object? Those

that rights and duties should be in equilibrium. A

A monarchical or aristocratic system is not immoral, if the rights and duties of persons and classes are in equilibrium, although the rights and duties of different persons and classes are unequal. An

We disfigure the beautiful face of God's providence, when we fancy him to have a cast of his eye, and care, to one more than another.

Christ and satan divide the whole world. Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

In a community where mobs do not appear to take white prisoners from jail cells to lynch them, who is really responsible for the lynching of a Negro prisoner, the band who actually blew out his brain or those of us in the church who say of Willie Earle and his kind, "RACA"—you're an empty-headed, worthless nigger! (That's about the meaning of the word "Raca" as Jesus used it in the 5th Chapter of Matthew.)

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

Alice's message for today—in Wonderland and the world at large—is that young women can do anything they like.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

Our nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination… rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.