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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