“The gradual development of the principle of equality is a Providential fact.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
ProgressDemocracy
Equality Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · EQUALITY
Equality Quotes
Read 200 of the best equality quotes about equal rights, justice, women's rights and human dignity, from Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Du Bois and more.
“Then let us pray that come it may, that man to man, the world o'er, shall brothers be for a' that.”
Robert Burns
BrotherhoodUnity
“Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick us, do we not bleed?”
William Shakespeare
Shared HumanityPrejudice
“Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; robes and furr'd gowns hide all.”
William Shakespeare
InjusticeWealth
“Take physic, pomp; expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.”
William Shakespeare
EmpathyPrivilege
“The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
CivilisationHuman Worth
“By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.”
Walt Whitman
FairnessEquality
“All that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.”
Mark Twain
No PrejudiceFunny
“Kindly remember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the same stock, is smiled upon by the same skies, and on equal terms with yourself breathes, lives, and dies.”
Seneca
Shared HumanityDignity
“A polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech.”
Marcus Aurelius
Equal RightsJustice
“Will you not bear with your own brother, who has Zeus for his progenitor, and is like a son from the same seeds as yourself?”
Epictetus
BrotherhoodKindness
“The same education which makes a man a good guardian will make a woman a good guardian; for their original nature is the same.”
Plato
Gender EqualityEducation
“Not by birth is one an outcast; not by birth is one a Brahmin. By deed one becomes an outcast, by deed one becomes a Brahmin.”
Buddha
Caste EqualityActions
“There is no Hindu, there is no Musalman.”
Guru Nanak
Religious UnityOneness
“It is needless to ask of a saint the caste to which he belongs.”
Kabir
Caste EqualitySpirituality
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one.”
The Bible (Galatians 3:28)
UnityFaith
“Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”
The Bible (Acts 10:34)
FairnessFaith
“And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth.”
The Bible (Acts 17:26)
Shared HumanityRacial Equality
“Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?”
The Bible (Malachi 2:10)
BrotherhoodFaith
“Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?”
The Bible (Job 31:15)
Equal WorthDignity
“The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.”
The Bible (Proverbs 22:2)
Rich And PoorEquality
“But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself.”
The Bible (Leviticus 19:34)
ImmigrantsLove
“My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.”
The Bible (James 2:1)
No FavouritismFaith
“For the Lord your God regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 10:17-18)
JusticeCompassion
“Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country.”
The Bible (Leviticus 24:22)
Equal JusticeLaw