Equality Quotes

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

I have some little notoriety for commiserating the oppressed condition of the negro; and I should be strangely inconsistent if I could favor any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself.

I think the negro is included in the word 'men' used in the Declaration of Independence.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Every man, black, white or yellow... that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.