Quotes About Equality

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

Slavery can never be abolished.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.