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Quotes About Equality

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace without justice is tyranny
~ William Allen White
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Without peace, there is little hope for human rights
~ Martin Ennals
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
~ Jonathon Porritt
Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
~ Jessie Sampter
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.
~ Roderick T. Long
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.
~ George McGovern
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
~ Corazon Aquino
I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
~ Kathleen Hanna
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.
~ Pierre Trudeau
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
~ Alan Paton
Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.
~ Hélder Câmara
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
~ William Penn
All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property
~ Gary L. Francione
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
~ Ludwig von Mises
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign
~ Frederik Willem de Klerk
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.
~ Nelson Mandela
We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
~ Dalai Lama