We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.

There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative read more

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.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top read more

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he read more

In America everybody is of the 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.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his read more

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.