Quotes About Equity

The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can't really pick it apart. It's all intertwined.

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.

En la justicia se fundan los imperios.

Who had decided that some should have so little and others so much?

monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

Equity thus depending, essentially, upon the particular circumstances of each individual case, there can be no established rules and fixed precepts of equity laid down, without destroying it's very essence.

Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical…. Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

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

Whatever their particular ownership structure, all of the companies guarded their equity zealously to make sure it remained in the hands of people committed to the same goals.

The board should include a balance … such that no individual or small group of individuals can dominate the board's decision-making.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercises of these privileges. The

I don't see why I have to when he doesn't. Then listen.

rights for all, special privileges for none!",' I quoted.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.

far from sharing in the bounty of American medical technology, African Americans are often bereft of high-technology care, even for life-threatening conditions such as heart disease. The

From the point of view of morality, it is not important that everyone should have the same. What is morally important is that each should have enough.

From the point of view of morality, it is not important everyone should have the same. What is morally important is that each should have enough.

In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness.