Quotes about Fairness
You cant have justice unless you have truth.
— Hill Harper
Fight fairly. Give generously. Laugh loudly. Love deeply.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is more just than justice.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love is more just than justice.
— Henry Ward Beecher
But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.
— Jimmy Carter
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.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Henry David Thoreau