Affirming Quote by Abraham Lincoln

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except…

— Abraham Lincoln

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to…

— Abraham Lincoln

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this…

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Human rights start with the freedom of equal income and educational opportunity. The deep-rooted inequalities like gender, colour, race and religion discriminations can be…

— Amit Ray

“When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.”

— Ayn Rand

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

— Clarence Thomas

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

— Lucy Stone

“While the country had legally made all men equal, they'd heard enough reports to know that bigotry festered and continued to kill with equal…

— Sarah McCoy

“I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public…

— Thomas Paine

“Equality has a built-in revolutionary force lacking in such ideas as justice or liberty. For once the ideal of equality becomes uppermost, it can…

— Robert Nisbet