Quotes About Fairness

Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination - these must become standard global operating conditions.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

Labour was founded to make the lives of working people better and to create more opportunities for everyone. Whether it's aspiring to work as a nurse in a hospital or setting up and running your own business, Labour should be about ensuring fairness so that everyone has the same chance in life to reach their goals.

Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people.

I would have paid out royalties if we were still working together, carrying on Bob's tradition and generating income, but that was not happening. The Wailers didn't write the songs and they had been paid for their work in the studio.

The antidote to the malaise and distrust that led to the rise of Trump is total civic engagement: working together from the grass roots, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, to implement progressive policies that build a fairer city for all.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.

We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

I believe in creating a workplace where a deep sense of justice underpins everything we do.

All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.

When I served alongside the brave women of our armed forces, who contribute so much to our country despite often facing discrimination on the job, it only strengthened my commitment to fairness and equal pay in the workplace.

We must ensure strong, fair and robust workplace rights remain in our country's DNA.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

I support social market economy. But it only works if there is fair competition.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes.

I think we should not accept and tolerate racism anywhere, in any game, whether it's a friendly game or a World Cup final, or it's a Champions League final.

In the World Cup, you have to respect every team.