Equality

QUOTES

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!
 Martin Luther King Jr.
 at Lincoln Memorial, 1963

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
 George Orwell
 Animal Farm, 1945

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
 Frederik Douglass
 1883

I have a dream that one day... the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
 Martin Luther King Jr.
 at Lincoln Memorial, 1963

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed or exiled... except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
 
 Magna Carta, 1215

You can have equality or equality of opportunity; you cannot have both. Equality will mean the holding back of the brighter children.
 Brian Cox
 Black Paper, 1975

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
 Abraham Lincoln
 Gettysburg Address, 1863

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
 Walter Bagehot
 1863

Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall all be unequal tomorrow.
 Anthony Trollope
 Autobiography, 1883

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
 Friedrich Hayek
 

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect, are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
 Aristotle
 -350

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice they get to be wide apart.
 Confucius
 Analects, -500

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
 Thomas Jefferson
 Declaration of Independence, 1776

See Also Justice Tolerance

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