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Quotes About Equality

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
~ Karl Liebknecht
This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.
~ Henry A. Wallace
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
~ Primo Levi
It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.
~ Charles Peguy
Less hatred, more love, less war, more peace, more respect for the Mother Nature and for other people.
~ Waris Dirie
Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
~ Justin Sane
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
~ Irene Khan
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
~ Francois Fenelon
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more laws, the less justice.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.
~ Leopold Kohr
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
~ Isabel Allende
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.
~ Dexter Gordon
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
~ Marion Barry
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.
~ Dionne Warwick
Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
~ Indira Gandhi
The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement
~ Naomi Klein