Erich Fromm Quotes

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

All people are different. That's why everybody should be treated the same.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.

Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.

The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Equality implies individuality.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

Equality is equity.

Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

We're all equal. We were all made the same.

Everybody's equal. Everybody should deserve the same opportunity, the same challenge, the same whatever.

I get treated like everyone else, and that's the way it should be.

Equality, equality, equality. I'm all about equality, that's the main thing and the only thing I'm about.

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.