Quotes About Fairness

There is nothing wrong with fighting, but when you're fighting an uphill battle on an uneven playing field, that's what I don't like.

Umpires are supposed to be non-confrontational - they're supposed to uphold the peace on the baseball field.

We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

Sikhs were considered the champions of fairness, uplifting people, protecting and defending human rights. Defending equality. So when someone sees a Sikh, the turban identifies a person who's going to stand up for rights, even if you disagree with them. The turban is supposed to be a beacon. That someone who is going to help you out.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.

I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.

If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset.

I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.

If I am lining up for a race, and I know there is someone there who cheats, it upsets me.

For a long time I couldn't even watch tennis on TV because I missed it too much. I was bitter and upset because it didn't seem fair. I was young and it was tough to see players that I played against my age, even older performing well.

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

If you want peace, work for justice.

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.

I don't believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.

Work hard...have fun...be nice...play fair...dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you're going to play this game, play it to win.

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.