Quotes on equality
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
Silone, Ignazio
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.
Manitonquat
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Ingalls, John James
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Ellerbee, Linda
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
Malcolm X
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Russell, Bertrand
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.
Farrell, Joseph
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people.
Lowell, James Russell
There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.
Babaji, Shri Haidakhan
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.
Descartes, René
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
Einstein, Albert