Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Equality

• We grant no dukedoms to the few,
  We hold like rights and shall;
  Equal on Sunday in the pew,
  On Monday in the mall.
  For what avail the plough or sail,
  Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Monday, Freedom, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

• Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Equality, Problem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.133, Harvard University Press

• Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Equality, Today, Tomorrow

• Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Equality, Together, Pedestal

• I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Equality, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.293, Harvard University Press

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