"The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors." - Henry Becque, Querelles littéraires

"One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

"It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals." - Felix Frankfurter, judicial opinion (1949)

"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, 'a new form of servitude.'" - F. A. Hayek

"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent." - Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (First Woman's Rights Convention, 1848)

"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling to themselves." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (1963)

"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. I have a dream today." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., speech (at the March on Washington, 1963)

"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., speech (at the March on Washington, 1963)

"By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)