Quotes About Equity

Growth of what? For whom? At what cost? Paid by whom? What is the real need here, and what is the most direct and efficient way for those who have that need to satisfy it? How much is enough? What are the obligations to share?

The more users there are, the more resource is used. The more resource is used, the less there is per user.

A system designed to build white wealth will ultimately not work to build black wealth.

a decision can be legally correct and still be unjust.

had a test in school and I studied for an entire week, night and day. My friend spent the entire week playing video games and having fun at the beach. I ended up getting an A, and my friend got an F. So what if the teacher said, 'it's not fair that Bren got an A and his friend got an F. So we're going to give you both C's. Still passing, right? So it's no big deal. Still plenty of cushion away from an F. The A earners shouldn't be greedy.

Among the things these issues all have in common is that they have started as legitimate human rights campaigns. This is why they have come so far. But at some point all went through the crash barrier. Not content with being equal, they have started to settle on unsustainable positions such as 'better'. Some might counter that the aim is simply to spend a certain amount of time on 'better' in order to level the historical playing field.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Political democracy cannot last unless there is at the base of it, a social democracy.

Grissom chose to remain completely fair and unbiased: he told every single one of them to go to hell.

Much of life, however, is characterized by what the sociologist Robert Merton called the Matthew Effect, named after a sentence from the book of Matthew in the Bible, which laments "For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism

Right wrongs no man.

Besides, is it really stealing if you're stealing from an asshole?" "I'd have to double-check, but I don't think the criminal code includes an asshole clause.

Briguei muito mediano, não obrei injustiça nem ruindades nenhumas; nunca disso me reprovam.

But doesn't fairness also mean not showing favoritism to one group over another? [fave quote from page 128]

Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

But when justice is done the world drops away.

David Hayman gave me my Equity card and my first job out of drama school - the first person I really looked up to professionally.