Equality

Some animals are more equal than other. Here are some proverbs and quotes about equality.

Demonstration for equality
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Source: Animal Farm

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(unknown author)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - the United Nations

Ashes or diamonds, foe or friend, we're all equal in the end.
Roger Waters

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
Plato

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J.K. Rowling

In fact in the world of infinity a part may be equal to the whole!
George Gamow
Source: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science

Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men. Dying is nothing to it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: North and South

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates

People are not clones in a monoculture, so what satisfies one will frustrate another, and the only way they can end up equal is if they are treated unequally.
Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
George Orwell
Source: Animal Farm

We came into the world like brother and brother,
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
William Shakespeare

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
(unknown author)
Source: Declaration of Independence

We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
A person or situation should be treated the same way that another person or situation is treated.




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