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Quotes About Equality

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
~ Toni Morrison
[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.
~ Joseph Stalin
There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.
~ Mohammed Morsi
We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
~ Jimmy Carter
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
~ George Carlin
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.
~ Frederik Willem de Klerk
What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.
~ Jody Williams
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
~ Nelson Mandela
I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
~ Jimmy Carter
We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.
~ Emiliano Zapata
I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
~ Germaine Greer
Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.
~ Michael Douglas
All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there's so many real reasons to hate others.
~ Emo Philips
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
~ Pope John Paul II
I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.
~ Edward Said
Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
~ Arthur Henderson
Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
~ Haile Selassie