Equitable Quotes

• In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

  Lauren Bacall

  Women, Party, Memorable

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• Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

  Donald Berwick

  Care, Definitions, Wealth

  "'Glenn Beck': Who Is Donald Berwick?". www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2010.

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• Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

  Peter Garrett

  Cutting, Climate, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Should Have, Taxpayers, Port

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• People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

  Richard Neal

  Believe, People, Achievement

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• One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

  Janez Drnovsek

  Fundamentals, World, Today

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• If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

  I. F. Stone

  Idaho, Doubt, Trying

  I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.227, PublicAffairs

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• We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.

  Kofi Annan

  Mind, Needs, World

  YouTube Chanel "Skoll.org"/ "Kofi Annan: The World I'm Working To Create", www.youtube.com. August 12, 2013.

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• With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Order, Water, Effort

  Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.

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• We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

  Nelson Mandela

  Opportunity, Working Together, Distribution Of Wealth

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• We should know that only replacing the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable cooperation will guarantee a globalization that takes advantage of potential efficiency gains in ways that also promote environmental protection, international equity, economic democracy, and variety.

  Robin Hahnel

  Greed, Competition, Democracy

  Robin Hahnel (1999). “Panic rules!: everything you need to know about the global economy”, South End Pr

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• Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth's largesse. When Africa, which gave us the wealth of life, has that debt returned, the world will have come of age.

  Bob Brown

  Past, Age, Together

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• The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us in our determined pursuit-a living democracy?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Trust, Giving Up, Home

  Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

  Willy Brandt

  War, Opportunity, Being Thankful

  Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”

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• A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Voice, Global Warming

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• Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Land, Class

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.41, South End Press

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• The way in which we can promote peace, is by promoting sustainable management of our resources, equitable distribution of these resources, and that the only way you can actually do that, is that then you have to have a political, economic system that facilitates that. And then you get into the issues of human rights, justice, economic justice, social justice, and good governance or democratic governance. That's how it ties up.

  Wangari Maathai

  Rights, Issues, Ties

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

  Evo Morales

  Past, Community, Way

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.

  Narendra Modi

  Young Generation, India, Generations

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• As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems of law and of political economy. While admitting its great importance, we cannot conceal the fact that the writers on those subjects have wholly failed to distinguish between its use and its abuse, or to recognize its rational and equitable limits.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Taken, Law, Political

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• Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Wealth, Rich

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1173, Delphi Classics

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• To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually 'Sarvodaya' or the 'rise of all'. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Numbers, Growth, Saws

  "Celebrating 100 years of Satyagraha". www.dnaindia.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There would seem to be every reason for the equitable protection, without limit as to time, of the unquestioned property rights of its citizens.

  Florence Earle Coates

  Rights, Judgement, Republic

  The Literary World, October 28, 1899.

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• Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.

  John Dewey

  Wisdom, Thinking, Distribution Of Power

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.362, SIU Press

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• We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fashion, Cutting, Kissing

  "Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002". Book by Salman Rushdie, 2003.

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