Quotes about Fairness
I'm really focused on Minnesota and Minnesotans, and I will come to Washington, D.C., prepared to be a fierce advocate for Minnesotans, especially around economic opportunity and fairness.
— Tina Smith
We can't allow ourselves to get lost in the past or the future. We are there for the food and our food is there for us; it is only fair. Eat in mindfulness and you will be worthy of the Earth and the sky.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
— Thomas Jefferson
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
— Thomas Jefferson
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
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
— Thomas Paine
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
— George Eliot
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.
— Kamala Harris
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.