Quotes about Equality

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always.

As a spirit dwelling in the ever-evolving human experience, I know that I am no better or worse than any other being. I simply am. You simply are. We are connected.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

An educated woman is a worthless woman.

What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.