Quotes About Equity

Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.

No matter where they live or how much money their parents make, every child deserves access to high-quality health care.

I have dedicated my career to advocating for a more equitable, humane criminal justice system.

If this is their idea of making things even, they're working with the wrong set of scales.

We want to make access to a world-class education like clean drinking water or electricity.

I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.

I have to spend my time worrying about poor families at the expense of helping businesses, or vice versa. To me, I really see that's the bridge I need to build.

The reality is, punishing people by using a sentencing enhancement that was clearly intended to punish people who had been doing something far worse is, by definition, a miscarriage of justice.

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

We see that in the top problems in the world between haves and have-nots, generally we find that the root cause is education.

Maintaining pay parity is very important, and I am in total favour of it.

That's why we give people fish, and also teach people to fish, and then also do something about who owns the pond. These all have to go together like a tripod or a three-legged stool. Without one leg, the stool get a little wobbly and out of balance. Charity workers need to also have a vision for justice. And justice workers need to keep their feet on the streets of injustice.

Some folks give people fish. Others teach people to fish. Others ask, "Who owns the pond? And why does a fishing license cost so much?

Life has a way of evening out the injustices it has created.

Unfortunately, law and justice are not always synonymous" -H.W. Marsworth

In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.

Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

It was understandable. But very unfair.

A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds.

Choose equality.

Voluntary simplicity is at once joyous and altruistic. Joyous because it is not permanently plagued by the hunger for "more"; altruistic because it does not encourage the disproportionate concentration of resources in the hands of a few, resources which—were they to be spread evenly—would significantly improve the lives of those deprived of basic needs.