Quotes about Fairness

America's higher purpose is not just to allow you to have what you want, or to allow me to have what I want. Our higher purpose is to give everyone a fair shot at making their dreams come true. Anything that stands in the way of that will ultimately deprive all of us of the opportunities we hold most dear. For America doesn't belong to any one of us; America belongs to all of us.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.

It's every man's business to see justice done.

I shall temper soJustice with mercy.

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that.

As John Howard Yoder has said, "If in society we believe in the rights of employees, then the church should be the first employer to deal with workers fairly. If in the wider society we call for the overcoming of racism or sexism or materialism, then the church should be the place where that possibility first becomes real.

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.