Proverbs

all men are created equal

No person is born superior or inferior to another,so all should have equal rights: “Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democraticspirit: he believed that all men were cre-ated equal, and therefore spurned all menoutside Group Headquarters with equalfervor” (Joseph Heller,

Catch-22,

1955).The proverb comes from the Declara-tion of Independence (1776), in whichThomas Jefferson wrote: “We hold thesetruths to be self-evident, that all men arecreated equal, that they are endowed bytheir Creator with certain unalienableRights, that among these are Life, Liberty,and the pursuit of Happiness.”Proverbs expressing similar mean-ing:

jack’s as good as his master; allanimals are equal, but some are moreequal than others.

Proverb expressing opposite mean-ing:

equality begins in the grave

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