Top 1200 Fairness And Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.

The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

Tennis has always been at the forefront of equality between men and women's prize money.

Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

In fairness to the [Donald] Trump people, if you look at the most recent numbers, they're actually doing well in Ohio, winning, winning in a lot of polls in Florida, and now Pennsylvania and Michigan have both tightened. They're not ahead, but they have tightened. And that's a good trend.

That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book

When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was a weather map or something. Now, in fairness to me, there weren't any websites then. But I remember saying, 'This is stupid - what's the point?' Now, of course, it's obvious.

Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

The innovations we need at our systems level require an understanding of business, psychology, and policy, but doing it with a deep, deep understanding of how our decisions create barriers for fairness and opportunity for some people.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.

With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.

In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But all the Tories can offer is unsustainable, mounting debt, punishing students for wanting an education. And discouraging thousands of young people from climbing the ladder to a better life.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.

The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.