Famous Quotes About equality

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

In America everybody is of the 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.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.