QUOTATION: Faith and Human Equality

In vain will the world seek for equality until it has seen men through the eyes of faith.  Faith teaches that all men, however poor, or ignorant, or crippled, however maimed, ugly, or degraded they may be, all bear within themselves the image of God, and have been bought by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. As this truth is forgotten, men are valued only because of what they can do, not because of what they are.

--Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Preface to Religion

QUOTATION: Equality

There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity.

--Alice von Hildebrand, Man and Woman

QUOTATION: The True Meaning of Equality

From the Gospel records, equality among men consists in this, that one and all, possessing the same nature, are called to the sublime dignity of being sons of God; and, moreover, that one and the same end being set before all, each and every one has to be judged according to the same laws.

--Pope Leo XIII, Quod Apostolici Muneris

QUOTATION: Democracy

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

--G.K. Chesterton ‘What I Saw in America.’