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Quotes About Fairness

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
~ John Roberts
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
~ Arthur Koestler
I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
~ Moses Coady
Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.
~ Bruce Cockburn
There is no power without justice.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
This administration is totally colorblind.
~ Ronald Reagan
"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Justice is the one thing you should always find.
~ Toby Keith
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
~ Thomas Jefferson
I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.
~ Diane Lane
See money – currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you are doing something good, never do it free
~ Nelson Nshekanabo
In the grand scheme of things it makes no difference who is right but rather what's right that counts.
~ Michael A. Contés II
Don't try to make life fair, instead, be on the side where life is extra good.
~ Sarvesh Jain
Be fair, just and kind.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.
~ Amit Kalantri
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.
~ John Rawls
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
~ Loretta Lynch
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
~ Bryan Stevenson
Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
~ Tammy Bruce
Mom's reaction to this chaos isn't a surprise. No matter how high the bill that she is paying or that Medicare is paying for her, she will say to me or herself: "What happens to all the people who can't afford this? It's just not fair." Universal
~ Will Schwalbe
Peace without justice is tyranny.
~ William Allen White
Lo, thou, my Love, art fair; Myself have made thee so; Yea, thou art fair indeed, Wherefore thou shalt not need In beauty to despair; For I accept thee so, For fair. [excerpt from "Christ to His Spouse"]
~ William Baldwin