We are all of 1 accord Strike all our souls the same notechord It is only God whom we’ll call Lord not those of butcher stock or warlords.
- O Anna Niemus
Equality Quotes and Sayings
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
- Barack Obama
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.
- Bertrand Russell
More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development.
- Kofi Annan
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther
If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
- Robert Kennedy
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.
- René Descartes
People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
- Linda Ellerbee
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.
- John James Ingalls
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol