Quotes About Fairness

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Each man should have all he earns, whether by brain or body; and the director, the great industrial leader, is one of the greatest of earners, and should have a proportional reward; but no man should live on the earnings of another, and there should not be too gross inequality between service and reward.

We should not take part in acting a lie any more than in telling a lie. We should not say that men are equal where they are not equal, nor proceed upon the assumption that there is an equality where it does not exist; but we should strive to bring about a measurable equality, at least to the extent of preventing the inequality which is due to force or fraud.

Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.

I am President of all the people of the United States, without regard to creed, color, birthplace, occupation or social condition. My aim is to do equal and exact justice as among them all.

I do not think partisanship should ever obscure the truth.

He who would weigh well and rightly his own doings would not be the man to judge severely of another.

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Needless to say, I fully support the legal codes that are meant to protect individuals from discrimination.

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

Nepotism is a natural thing that happens in every field.

I have never experienced any nepotism or groupism in my career.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

One would be lying if they say nepotism doesn't exist.