Quotes about Equity
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person in the universe getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
- Joseph Heller
Restitution costs: "He shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth to it." Restitution costs twenty percent according to Leviticus. Guilt requires not simply equity and an even balance, but gift beyond affront. It requires surplus compensation. Such a rule is both economically shrewd and psychologically sound. Israel is required to move beyond grudging restoration, until it is "pressed down and running over.
- Walter Brueggemann
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
- Barack Obama
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
- Anthony Browne
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
- Thomas Jefferson
There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.
- Al Gore
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
- Euripides
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
- Edmund Burke
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
- Cicero
Without justice, there can be no peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook
- Thomas Jefferson