All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

The line echoes the egalitarian premise of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (“all men are created equal”) and then pivots to a moral critique: inequality is framed less as a natural fact than as a human construction. Read this way, “placing themselves above equality” points to pride, status-seeking, and the social systems people build to justify hierarchy—class, race, wealth, celebrity, or power. The statement implies personal responsibility as well as collective accountability: if inequality is made by people, it can be unmade by people. It also carries an implicit warning that claims of superiority are self-appointed rather than earned by any inherent human difference.