Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
I believe there is only one race - the human race.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy.
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.
I am Death, and I make all equal.
Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.
Things which coincide with one another are equal to one another.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.
