Quotes about Fairness

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

The person with the question needed something and they got it. The person with the answer was doing something else and had to stop. That's rarely a fair trade.

By the same token, as a remote worker, you shouldn't let employers get away with paying you less just because you live in a cheaper city. "Equal pay for equal work" might be a dusty slogan, but it works for a reason. If with regard to compensation you accept being treated as a second-class worker based on location, you're opening the door to being treated poorly on other matters as well.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.