Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

All are essentially equal in the eyes of God.

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

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

All men are equal at the foot of the Cross.

The color of the prisoner’s skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race — the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.

The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

We believe that all men and women are created in the image of God. We believe that we are all equally created. So the fact of the matter is that we should assume by default that we reject the support of those who do not support the theory, the notion, the fact, that all men are created equally.

Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil rights... Nothing, however, is as ill-founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.