Equality Quotes

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

I believe the Declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I hold if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands.

Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancement - improvement in conditions - is the order of things in a society of equals.

God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

While we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

It is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.