Quotes About Fairness

We are in the midst of a struggle for American identity, including not only individualist liberalism and authoritarianism, but also the tradition of human rights and the common good that are under attack by an individualistic ideology of greed and selfishness. We need an American identity that supports fairness and justice so we have a way to encourage people to act with public responsibility.

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

Americans are still a fair and just people. They know the difference between racism and race-baiting, between violence and accusations of violence, between hatred and patriotism. Let them weigh the evidence for as long as they need, because when the verdict comes down, we will once again be on the right side.

Anyone who speaks of punishing their political enemies in on the wrong side. It is clearly evil and we have a responsibility to say so.

Justice, then, must function at both levels: personal and communal. It must flow in both directions: from one individual to another and from the community as a whole to each individual.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

As Dr. King once said, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

To be just, a law has to be flexible.

As Dr. King once said, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied." If

Looking at Barbados and Australia as relatively positive examples, one societal hallmark of self-esteem seems to be an ability to both give and demand fairness, an expectation that extends from the personal to the political.

Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow than to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.

The challenge of humanity is the choice of what works perfectly for them over what works fairly for them.

The problem isn't that the world isn't fair enough. It is, we aren't truthful enough.

The world is neither fair nor unfair, the question is whether you are fair to yourself.

Truth makes privilege

Mistrust all those in whom the desire to punish is imperative - Goethe

Whether women are better than men I cannot say — but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Psalms of lament call on God to stop injustice and exploitation and oppression. By calling on God to intervene, the psalmist or the one praying the psalms is affirming that God is the utterly fair and all-knowing Judge.

Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong, when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.