Quotes On: Equality

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Before God we are all equally wise—and equally foolish.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

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.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.