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Quotes About Equity

Equality in education is my number one battle.
~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
~ Van Jones
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
~ Majora Carter
Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity
~ Jonathon Porritt
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
~ Thomas Jefferson
To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
~ Alice Paul
I don't hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
~ Baruch Spinoza
You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!
~ Leymah Gbowee
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
~ Edmund Burke
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
~ Pliny the Elder
I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.
~ Philip Vera Cruz
Law and justice are not always the same.
~ Gloria Steinem
Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
~ Ben Kingsley
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
~ Thomas Paine
It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
~ Aristotle
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
~ Frances Wright
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.
~ Unknown
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.
~ Jeff Sessions