Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

And every human being is precious.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

I love diversity.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

All men are equal before fish.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.