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“This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.”

Men Humans Religion Human Beings Accepting Mankind Brother Equal Members Islam Human Family

Book:February 1965: the final speeches

Source: February 1965: the final speeches

“Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.”

People Ifs Needs Moving United Mankind Civilization Equal Tails Columns

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves”

“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Mankind Equal Conscious Consequence Property Misery Enormous Inequality Liberalism Devices Division Legislators

Book:The Essential Jefferson

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.”

Ifs Giving Helping Mankind Bears Equal Weight Envy Scales Superiors Acknowledge Merit Thrown Ridicule Casting Malice

Author:William Hazlitt

“The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.”

Thinking Has Beens Action Form Success Mankind Events Equal Judgment Glory Deserve Equity

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”

Men Government Form Justice Democracy Failing Mankind Example Equal Claims Notion Arise Forms Of Government Acknowledgement Sprung Sprung Up

Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!”

Men Dream Destiny Rights Mankind Duty Equal Responsible Rights And Duties

Author:Leon Bourgeois

“Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.”

Men Eye Law Moral Seeing Subjects Mankind Equal Moral Law

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.”

Men Mankind Equal Bird Every Man Beast

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.”

Ifs Men Needs Mankind Equal Be Confident

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

Source: Two treatises of government

“If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.”

Ifs Would Be Imagination Race Mankind Emotional Equal Thirds Intelligent Equality Stable Imaginative Select Energetic Presenting Different Cultures Cultural Diversity

Book:Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

“The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.”

Men May Social Natural Moral Mankind Equal Contrary Inequality Substitutes Destroying Covenant Pact Social Contract

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau