Quotations About Equality and Difference

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal.  There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.  
John James Ingalls
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.  
Joseph Farrell
While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.  
Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.  
Isa Upanishad
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.  
Logan Pearsall Smith
There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.  
Shri Haidakhan Babaji
The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.  
Martin H. Fischer
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.  
Michel de Montaigne
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.  
Albert Einstein
The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.  
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.  
Bernard M. Baruch
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.  
Ignazio Silone
People are pretty much alike.  It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. 
Linda Ellerbee

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