Equality Quotes

Our nation was founded on a simple idea: we’re all created equal.

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.

The challenge we’re facing in our country is about more than the actions of a few. It’s about how to transform a justice system that doesn’t work equally for all.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.