Quotes About Equity

One of the fastest ways to build the clean energy economy is to allow more people to benefit from it.

I set up the KC Academy to get more people from a black background into cycling.

Aligning private development with community needs for equity and resiliency is one of the most powerful roles of city government.

The question is wether any environmental catastrophe, even severe climate change, could possibly inflict the same terrible human cost as keeping 3 or 4 billion people in poverty. To ask that question is to answer it.

fairness and gender rarely intersected.

What's fair ain't necessarily right

But each in its own way was affected by the growing intolerance of immoderate inequality, initiating public provision to compensate for private inadequacy.

The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true for rich and poor countries alike. What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.

There is no such thing as getting more than you put into anything.

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

justice makes charity less necessary

Grappling with America's trenchant refusal to open up the doors to quality education, Time announced that the "gap between what the Negro now achieves and what he might achieve indicates that he is the nation's most wasted resource."122

Low prices are what consumers consider fair, even if their affordable goods create injustice elsewhere.

There is justice in an insanely cruel world.

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly

But to abolish assessments, as many Just Americans want to do, and then declare that we've achieved "equity," ensures that all students receive exactly the same lousy education.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

Harsh justice is still justice.

I will answer injustice with justice.

Equity is often difficult to judge, and still more difficult to achieve,

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.