All Members of Society Are Equal None Lower None Higher
is inspired by the book
Non-Violence or Non-Existence
- an introduction to Mahatma Gandhi's ideology of non-violent society by the Indian activist Satish Kumar.
NOTE
Satish Kumar (born 1936) is an Indian British activist and speaker. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist. Kumar was founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. His most notable accomplishment is the completion, together with companion E. P. Menon, of a peace walk, two and a half years and over 8,000 miles from New Delhi to Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, the capitals of the world's earliest nuclear-armed countries. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.
Non-Violence or Non-Existence,
Satish Kumar. First edition published by Christian Action, 1969
Satish Kumar outlines Gandhi's view that inequality is artificially created - by competition, exploitation and capitalism - and poverty and its associated suffering are not inevitable.
Conversely, fairness is a natural tendency in people which operates in the interests of all members of a society when it is free to do so.
