“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.”
James Russell Lowell
InjusticeTruth
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.
“Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground.”
Edwin Markham
Workers' RightsDignity
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue.”
Oscar Wilde
ResistanceProgress
“The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.”
John Stuart Mill
IndividualsSociety
“O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque.”
Kabir
Religious UnitySpirituality
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
Jane Addams
Common GoodSolidarity
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Eugene V. Debs
SolidarityCompassion
“There is no slavery but ignorance.”
Robert G. Ingersoll
EducationFreedom
“Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.”
Chief Joseph
Equal JusticeOpportunity
“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”
Chief Joseph
Land RightsEquality
“Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land; tell old Pharaoh, let my people go.”
Traditional Spiritual
FreedomFaith
“Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom over me! And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave.”
Traditional Spiritual
FreedomResistance
“The righteous considereth the cause of the poor.”
The Bible (Proverbs 29:7)
PovertyRighteousness
“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.”
The Bible (Psalm 82:3)
JusticeAdvocacy
“Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 22:3)
JusticeProtection
“And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor.”
The Bible (Zechariah 7:10)
CompassionJustice
“And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.”
The Bible (Luke 6:31)
Golden RuleFairness
“For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”
The Bible (Matthew 5:45)
FairnessGrace
“Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.”
The Bible (Romans 12:16)
HumilityRespect
“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
The Bible (Galatians 5:14)
LoveEquality
“But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin.”
The Bible (James 2:9)
No FavouritismFaith
“And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 12:21)
Everyone MattersUnity
“Him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.”
The Bible (Job 34:19)
Rich And PoorEquality
“It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.”
The Bible (Proverbs 24:23)
Fair JudgmentJustice
“He drew a circle that shut me out - heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: we drew a circle that took him in!”
Edwin Markham
InclusionLove