Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed....I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed
— Bertrand Russell (attrib)
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men
— Lyndon B. Johnson
In Germany, the Nazis came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I was a Protestant so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me...By that time there was no one to speak up for anyone
— Martin Niemöller
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men
— Jane Addams
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves
— Abraham Lincoln
The only difference is that the stress and the violence is worse at home, because it happens younger, it happens at the hands of someone you love and there is no recognition that this is the enemy
— Gloria Steinem
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action
— Woodrow Wilson
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunites...if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die
— Nelson Mandela
Rape is a form of mass terrorism...The fear of rape keeps women off the streets at night. Keeps women at home. Keeps women passive and modest for fear that they be thought provocative
— Susan Griffin
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed
— Constitution of UNESCO
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance
— John Philpot Curran
All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff