Ancestry Quote by Anonymous

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All…

— James K. Polk

“Citizenship is more than an individual exchange of freedoms for rights; it is also membership in a body politic, a nation, and a community.…

— Melissa V. Harris-Perry

We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There are a few instances that arise in the unique context of domestic equal-protection challenges to governmental actions that are facially neutral but produce…

— David B. Rivkin

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or…

— James Kent

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

— William E. Gladstone

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and…

— Thurgood Marshall

“Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number…

— Victor Hugo

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

— Slobodan Milosević