Equality Quotes

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.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.