EQUALITY QUOTES
quotations about equality
Oh and equality's just a dream
There's no system we can trust
NUCLEAR ASSAULT
"Justice", Game Over
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
"On the Disadvantages of a Monarchy", The American Democrat, 1838
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863
As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 22, 1855
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
The Book of Snobs
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.
STEVEN PINKER
The Blank Slate
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
ALBERT CLAYTON POWELL
attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
TOM ROBBINS
Still Life with Woodpecker
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Unites States Declaration of Independence, 1776
God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.
ANTOINETTE L. BROWN
speech to woman's rights convention in Syracuse, 1852
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
MARTHA PLIMPTON
Entertainment Tonight, March 5, 2012
No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
letter to Elizabeth Hitchener, Jul. 25, 1811
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
ALAN MOORE
V for Vendetta
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
FRANCES WRIGHT
On the Nature of Knowledge and Kindred Inquiries
We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same.
ROGUE GALLART
Orlando Sentinel, May 19, 2019
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
WILL DURANT
The Lessons of History
All men are equal: it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
VOLTAIRE
attributed, Day's Collacon
All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Mary Barton
The true meaning of the word "Equality" is--"No one better off than I am."
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust