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Quotes About Equity

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
~ Pierre Corneille
One is often guilty by being too just.
~ Pierre Corneille
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.
~ Mandy Moore
Investing in vital infrastructure will help to build more sustainable, equitable economies.
~ Winnie Byanyima
On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
~ Wendy Kopp
Federal resources are vital to the health of our HBCUs.
~ Jaime Harrison
I am proud to be a vocal advocate for pay equity to ensure hard work is paid fairly, regardless of sex or gender.
~ Raphael Warnock
We have to ensure that everybody's voice is heard equally, or nobody's will be.
~ David Hogg
Media gatekeepers - editors, publishers, film studios and the like - need to begin investing in talent behind the scenes, developing and resourcing marginalized voices to tell their own stories. At the end of the day, it's about the story and what will enable the audience to truly see, understand, and know the life and times of the subject.
~ Janet Mock
Underrepresented employees already have to overcome discriminatory barriers in their careers; they shouldn't be expected to volunteer their time to help their companies do the same.
~ Susan Wojcicki
I'm going to ensure justice, where justice is shaky.
~ Isaac Wright Jr.
There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.
~ Rick Santelli
There are too many who have not shared in the benefits of this economy.
~ Joe Sestak
I am the largest shareholder in SoftBank; I share the same interest as the other shareholders.
~ Masayoshi Son
In my barn, everyone gets a fair and equal shot.
~ Bob Baffert
There shouldn't be a barrier between rich and poor in terms of the kind of health care that they can access.
~ Ash Sarkar
The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.
~ Gifford Pinchot
The New Jersey constitution, says the court in its decision, requires that all students be provided with "an opportunity to compete fairly for a place in our society.… Pole vaulters using bamboo poles even with the greatest effort cannot compete with pole vaulters using aluminum poles.
~ Jonathan Kozol
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
~ Jonathan Swift
truth, justice, temperance, and
~ Jonathan Swift
Vengeance is not justice." The man's voice was grim. "It is in my book." ~ The Perfect Kill
~ A. J. Quinnell
Leadership has never been an exact science. But it has always found itself particularly challenged when tasked with elevating one segment of a society onto a level more politically, socially, and economically equitable with another.
~ Aberjhani
Why, my good man, thou hast the curiosity of a girl. Who could have believed, that only a slight hint would have set thy imagination agog in such a manner. And a fine encouragement I have to unravel the mystery as thou callest it. Nothing less, truly, than to be told something to my disadvantage. What an excellent reward that will be! In what court of justice didst thou learn that equity?
~ Abigail Adams