Famous Quotes & Sayings

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Lakhdar Brahimi

What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Woodrow Wilson

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Will Rogers

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Voltaire

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Rufus Choate

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

William Makepeace Thackeray

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

Pankaj Mishra

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

Khalil Gibran

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Mahatma Gandhi

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

Mahatma Gandhi

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Mahatma Gandhi

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Mahatma Gandhi

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

Mahatma Gandhi

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

Mahatma Gandhi

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

Friedrich August von Hayek

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.

Eric Hoffer

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

Eric Hoffer

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

Oriana Fallaci

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

Nelson Mandela

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

Kim Campbell

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Marya Mannes

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.