Human Equality Quotes:

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

- Thomas Huxley

source: Thomas Henry Huxley (1901). “Collected Essays”

topic: Brother, Equality, Human Equality

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

topic: Rights, Dignity, Born Free, Equality For All, Human Dignity

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Freedom, Social Equality, Social Injustice

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

- Simone Weil

source: Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Equality, Degrees, Needs, Equality For All, Equality Of People

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Leadership, Witty, Men, Consent Of The Governed, Leadership In Education

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

- George Orwell

source: George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

topic: Equality, Reform, Literature, Equality Of People, Ignorance In 1984

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Equality, Men, Liberty, Liberty And Equality, Equality For All

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

- Gloria Steinem

source: "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

topic: Women, Feminist, Humanity, Women Equality, Inspirational Feminist

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

topic: Change, Courage, Peace, Social Injustice, Justice And Injustice

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

topic: Freedom, Equality, America, Liberty And Equality, Democracy In America

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

- Alveda King

topic: Lying, Racism, Faces, Oppressors, Facing The Truth

We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this not because it is economically advantageous - although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it - although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.

- Robert Kennedy

topic: Men, Law, Land, Human Equality

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

- Carl Schurz

source: Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

topic: Freedom, Spring, Blow, Equality For All, Fairness And Equality

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Sex, Race, Differences, Women's Education, Women's Rights

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Clever, Stupid, Men, Really Clever, Human Equality

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

- Elizabeth A. Johnson

topic: God, Language, Sexist, Human Equality

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Mean, Equality, Income, Human Equality

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

- George Orwell

topic: Forever, Insanity, Prevailing, Ignorance In 1984, Human Equality

And this is the mission of the church--not civilization, but salvation--not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but first, the "kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow.

- Abbott Eliot Kittredge

topic: Heart, Law, Civilization, Human Equality

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't; b] he has a high IQ, but they don't.

- Steve Sailer

source: "Americans First". www.theamericanconservative.com. February 13, 2006.

topic: Two, White, People, Human Equality

The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.

- Arthur Jensen

topic: Environmental, Belief, Accepted, Human Equality

Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.

- Noah Feldman

topic: God, Believe, Choices, Acknowledgement, Compatible

An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation

- Robert M. Pirsig

source: Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

topic: War, Principles, Body, Human Equality