Quotes about Equality
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
- Nelson Mandela
I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.
- Barack Obama
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
- Elbert Hubbard
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
- Malcolm X
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
- Richard Baxter
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
- Herbert Hoover
The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.
- Frederick Douglass
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
- George Washington
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
- Abraham Lincoln
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
- Franklin D. Roosevelt