Equality of Worth Quotes

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Positions and titles mean absolutely nothing. They're just adornments; they don't represent the substance of anybody. Every person and every job is worth as much as any other person and any other job.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

I think anybody has - regardless of your gender, we all have equal value. If you have value to bring and value to provide, you just have to be willing to use your voice.

But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I don't see myself any higher than anyone else.

I am a girl, not a piece of meat.

Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.