Quotes About Equity

Ius est ars boni et aequi [Legal justice is the art of the good and the fair].

Fiat justitia ruat coelum [Let justice be done though heaven should fall].

April was my first major role and provided me with my Equity card.

There are exceptional schools in many of our most disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout the Commonwealth. Proving they can get it done for kids, no matter what their circumstances.

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.

Each and every student deserves equitable access to a quality public education that prepares them for college, career, and citizenship.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

There are some people in our state who may choose a different public school because they have the private means to move from one district to the other. But why should we limit choice just to those who can financially afford it?

The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing, as my colleague and friend Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has proposed. We need a Green New Deal for Cities, as my friend Cori Bush has proposed. And we need a Green New Deal for Public Schools.

Artists deserve more than a check cut in half eight times by publishers.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Growing up with a father who was a judge, I heard a lot about justice. But for justice to be applied, punishments need to fit their crimes.

I would love to live in a world that is purely equal, where everyone has equal opportunities in every way. But that is not reality.

Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

There are two reasons to pursue diversity and inclusion. One, because you believe one group has benefitted from hundreds of years of discrimination, or two, maybe you don't like that women make 73 cents on the dollar compared to men.

The basic idea of retirement income is, to me, to get a check, two checks every month, one from your fixed income and one from equity account. And you want them to grow over time.

What are we focused on? Return on equity. We don't need these great big tier one assets. I'm very happy with getting tier two, tier three assets; that's what Glencore has been good at.

I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.