It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples; in order more sanely to judge our own; and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous; and against reason; as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. ~Ren? Descartes; Discourse on the Method; 1637 (translated)


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; 1917


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


"Whatever you may be sure of; be sure of this:? That you are dreadfully like other people. ~James Russell Lowell; ""Democracy Address;"" Birmingham; England; 6 October 1884"


In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors; since all men are equal; but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors; for; from the time of Jefferson onward; the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards; not downwards. ~Bertrand Russell; Unpopular Essays; 1950


We didn't all come over on the same ship; but we're all in the same boat. ~Bernard M. Baruch


Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb


There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag; and rascality a robe; when the loving; the tender; eat a crust; while the infamous sit at banquets. ~Robert Ingersoll; A Lay Sermon


Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. ~Malcolm?X


There is no saint without a past; and no sinner without a future. ~Shri Haidakhan Babaji


Death and dice level all distinction. ~Samuel Foote; The Minor


The tears of the red; yellow; black; brown and white man are all the same. ~Martin H. Fischer


Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. ~Albert Einstein


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; translated


As experience widens; one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. ~Joseph Farrell


The longer we live; the more we find we are like other persons. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


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


Once the game is over; the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb


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


Who sees all beings in his own Self; and his own Self in all beings; loses all fear. ~Isa Upanishad