Quotes about Equality
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let the punishment match the offense.
- Cicero
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
- Cicero
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
- Margaret Atwood
Women have an important contribution to make.
- Margaret Mead
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Let the punishment match the offense.
- Cicero
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
- Fannie Lou Hamer
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
- Edmund Burke
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
- Nelson Mandela
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.
- William Wallace