In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
~ Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
~ Yiddish Proverb

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
~ Ignazio Silone

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
~ Italian Proverb

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
~ John James Ingalls

We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.
~ Bernard M. Baruch

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.
~ Joseph Farrell

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
~ Malcolm X

Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
~ Albert Einstein