Human Equality Quotes

We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate a man because he was born in another land, because he speaks a different language, or because he has different views is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human….Let us have but one end in view – the welfare of humanity.

What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking.

The most powerful idea in the modern world: All men are created equal.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class. It is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

More than 180 countries around the world have ratified CEDAW, some with reservations. While the United States signed the treaty in 1981, it is one of the few countries that have not yet ratified it. As a global leader for human rights and equality, I believe our country should adopt this resolution and ratify the CEDAW treaty.

All men therefore among themselves are by nature equal; the inequality we now discern, hath its spring from the Civil Law.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

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

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

As to what we call the masses and the common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

When we consider how nearly equal all men are in their bodily force, and even in their mental powers and faculties, till cultivated by education, we must necessarily allow that nothing but their own consent could at first associate them together and subject them to any authority.

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

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

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.