"We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war."
-Arthur Henderson
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"As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.“
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"The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity."
-Arthur Henderson
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"The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization."
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"Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever."
-Arthur Henderson
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"It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world."
-Arthur Henderson
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"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war."
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"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it."
-Slobodan Milosevic
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"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."
-Slobodan Milosevic
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"Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf."
-Alice S. Rossi
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"The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment."
-Lyman Trumbull
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"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."
-Harlan Stone
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"If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing."
-John Hope
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