Quotes on Equality
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-- Thomas Jefferson, draft of the Declaration of Independence
I have a dream that one day his nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
– Henry Miller
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to then level of the earth.
– Alexis de Tocoqueville
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
– George Orwell
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
-- Walt Whitman