Quotes About Equity

If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.

The challenge of leadership in a plural democracy is to construct policies that ensure political stability, social equity, and economic progress on the basis of a widely shared ethical and cultural foundation.

A universal basic income funded by a value-added tax, which is a tax placed on a product whenever value is added at each stage of the supply chain, from production to the point of sale, would spread the benefits of automation to a much wider group of people.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to cope with epidemics.

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

I am doing what I can to expand the tent and bring up other people and make sure we are telling different kinds of stories.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

The most important factor in college admissions is a test that benefits those who are least prepared for college.

Robert Muchamore

For 2015, the Equality Index found that blacks had on average only 56 percent of the economic well-being and 61 percent of social justice benefits that whites enjoy.

Genuine education equity will be achieved only when schools serving low-income children mirror in number, variety, and access the options that affluent parents have come to expect for their children.

If we define a good school as one that serves all children equally well and effectively, we might as well concede there is no such thing as a good school and never will be.

Omally, as ever, slept the sleep of the just, which was quite unjust of him, considering he had no right to do it.

Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.

Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.

Now, Megan, we can't pick on whoever abstained.

They hadn't discriminated against John because he was a man

What is the difference between justice and revenge? he asked. ... Revenge seeks chaos, he said. Justice seeks balance. That's the difference.