3 Bertrand Russell Quotes on Equality

Bertrand Russell quotes on equality

40. It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.

52. There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

175. 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.