Quotes About Equity

If learning is necessary but causes harm, then above all it ought to apply to everyone alike.

Nothing can justify injustice.

The victims are the ones who made injustice possible.

Unto those who have, it shall, uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not, it shall, uncannily, be taken away.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Todo el mundo debería tener acceso a una biblioteca.

He worked for a securities firm, talking to money managers and hedge funds about how best to manage risk. He specialized, he said, in corporate equity and debt.

We cannot guarantee equal outcomes, but we must do all we can to ensure equal opportunity.

most of the duties incumbent on us, if well considered, will be found to partake of the nature of justice.

The Fairness/cheating foundation

No matter how often you do it with three-year-olds, they're just not ready to get the concept of fairness

When a few members of a group contributed far more than the others—or, even more powerfully, when a few contributed nothing—most adults do not want to see the benefits distributed equally.51 We can therefore refine the description of the Fairness foundation that I gave in the last chapter.

Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality.

Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school—and to the public school in our district. Thus the state, by requiring attendance but refusing to require equity, effectively requires inequality. Compulsory inequity, perpetuated by state law, too frequently condemns our children to unequal lives.

This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is seen as liberty--even if the poverty of those in nearby cities robs them of all meaningful autonomy by narrowing their choices to the meanest and the shabbiest of options. In this way, defendants in these cases seem to polarize two of the principles that lie close to the origins of this republic. Liberty and equity are seen as antibodies to each other.

Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.

An increase in the visibility of inequality would compound the effect, as the Norwegians discovered.

Tidak mungkin kita hidup bahagia kalau kita hidup dengan sembrono, tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang layak dan tidak berlaku adil. Orang yang tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang baik, tidak bisa hidup dengan senang.

The just person enjoys. the greatest peace of mind, while the unjust is full of the utmost disquietude.

O homem justo é o mais livre da angústia; o injusto o mais cheio de angústia.

With this life I give you justice.

A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

We've created a system that demands almost no engagement with our food; we've wrung all the responsibility and sweat equity from the process. It's not that we're getting something for nothing - after all, we do pay for our food, and we suffer the consequences of dining from the industrial trough. But charging a package of center-cut pork chops to your Visa is a hell of a lot different than facing down the source of those chops with a .22 in one hand and a well-honed knife in the other.