Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) Fijian politician
Closing address to the National Youth Peace camp at Debua, 9 December 2005.
Fiji Day address, 10 October 2005
Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) Fijian politician
Closing address to the National Youth Peace camp at Debua, 9 December 2005.
Nycole Turmel (1942) Canadian politician
NDP blasts PM for singling out threat of 'Islamicism' http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110907/ndp-criticizes-harper-singling-out-islamicism-110907/ September 7, 2011.
Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864) American politician
As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&ndash;64 https://web.archive.org/web/20160319080502/https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA48 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 48 <br class="br">1840s, Address to the Liberty Party of Illinois (May 1842)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, The Chance for Peace (1953)
“…irrespective of castes, creeds or position in the society, all are same in the eyes of law.”
Bhimsen Thapa (1775–1839) Mukhtiyar and de facto ruler of Nepal from 1806 to 1837
As quoted in page 184 of book Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806–1839 https://books.google.com.np/books?id=7PP1yElRzIUC&dq=bhimsen+thapa&source=gbs_navlinks_s|
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Second Inaugural Address (January 2013)
“Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.”
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
In Quest of Democracy (1991)
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
Dune Genesis (1980)
Context: In the beginning I was just as ready as anyone to fall into step, to seek out the guilty and to punish the sinners, even to become a leader. Nothing, I felt, would give me more gratification than riding the steed of yellow journalism into crusade, doing the book that would right the old wrongs.
Reevaluation raised haunting questions. I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.