Equality

Works to read

• Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1755 · Great Books
• Plessy v. Ferguson by Supreme Court of the United States, 1896
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka by Supreme Court of the United States, 1954
• The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, 1869
• City of God by Augustine of Hippo, 413–426 CE · Great Books
• The Founding Documents by Continental Congress and United States Constitutional Convention, 1776-1791 · Great Books
• The Articles of Confederation by Continental Congress, 1777 (ratified 1781) · Great Books
• A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop, 1630
• A Man’s a Man for A’ That by Robert Burns, 1795
• The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856
• Gideon v. Wainwright by Supreme Court of the United States, 1963
• No Cross, No Crown by William Penn, 1669

Passages

• It is better, my son, to honor Equality, who always joins friend to friend, city to city, allies to allies;

  — Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays

• But to go further, and make equality of condition essential to liberty, would be to destroy both liberty and progress.

  — John C. Calhoun, A Disquisition on Government

• What is needed is, that it should be a school of sympathy in equality, of living together in love, without power on one side or obedience on the other.

  — John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

• The constitutional protection of religious freedom terminated disabilities, it did not create new privileges. It gave religious equality, not civil immunity.

  — Supreme Court of the United States, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

• If the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it must be the result of natural affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other's merits, and a voluntary consent of individuals.

  — Supreme Court of the United States, Plessy v. Ferguson

• Not to contend for such a stake is to surrender our equality with other powers on the element common to all and to violate the sacred title which every member of the society has to its protection

  — James Madison, Second Inaugural Address

Passages are verified quotations from the library that use one of these words: equality, equal, inequality. Sentences under “From the texts” are copied word for word from the full texts in this library. Read each in its context on the work's page.