Quotes about Equality

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

On the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Yet it is tough knowing that the only time souls will ever be equal is when we die and meet the Lord.