Art 7

You shall not subvert the rights of the stranger or the fatherless; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pawn. (Deuteronomy 24:7)

Stand up firmly for justice, as a witness to God, even as against yourselves or your parents or your kin, and whether it be against rich or poor. (Quran 4:135)

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28)

My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat here, please,” while to the one who is poor you say, “Stand there,” or, “Sit at my feet,” have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?… You do well if you really fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. (James 2:1-4; 8-10)

By pronouncement of the Supreme Pastor of the Church, who has rendered judgement, . . , they [the Indians] are truly of the human race and truly men as we are, worthy to receive the sacraments of Holy Church, free by nature, and masters of their goods and actions. (S. de Vasconcellos Chronicle of the Society of Jesus in the State of Brazil 1663)

Look upon all with equality and recognize the Supreme Soul (God) pervading among all. (Sri Guru Granth Sahib, p.446)

Since it is to be desired that there should be uniformity in law and also uniformity in justice, from this time forward such is my injunction. (Asoka’s Pillar Edict IV, 3BCE, India)

What do you think about this, sire? If a brahman, a merchant, a worker were to break into a house - what would you do to him?
Good Kaccana, we should kill him - he is reckoned simply as ‘thief’.
What do you think about this, sire? This being so, are these four castes exactly the same or not? Or how does this seem to you?
Indeed, good Kaccana, this being so, these four castes are exactly the same; I do not see any difference between them in this respect. (Majjhima Nikaya II)