Quotes about Equality

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?

the Moral Law is not always the standard by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we expect others to treat us.

But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the green in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

We somehow have the idea that a person called to the ministry is called to be different and above other people. But according to Jesus Christ, he is called to be a 'doormat' for others--called to be their spiritual leader, but never their superior.

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

However, its ultimate motivation is fanatics' hostility to the principle of an open society in which formal equality is recognized for everyone.

However, its ultimate motivation is fanatics' hostility to the principle of an open society in which formal equality is recognized for everyone. It is our existence as such that is intolerable for them.