Quotes about Fairness

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

I would not subtract anything from the praise that is due to philanthropy but merely demand justice for all who by their lives and works are a blessing to mankind.

You're morally tainted if you don't treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.