Equitable Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

  Coretta Scott King

  Wisdom, Country, America

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• If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.

  Bob Torres

  Real, Believe, Roots

  Bob Torres (2007). “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights”, p.7, AK Press

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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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• 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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• I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Doors, Armageddon, Greater

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Mind, Age

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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 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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• Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you individualize the spirit within you through the process of observation. If you work on yourself, the progress you make radiates invisibly to others, helping them and giving them courage, which also improves the global picture. After all-your ego is a part of the world ego, and as you control it, you lessen the overall influence of the world ego while expanding the presence of truth on our planet.

  Stuart Wilde

  Inspirational, Giving, Ego

  Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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• The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.

  Will Rogers

  Clothes, Should Have, Gasoline

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• The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him.

  Madame de Stael

  Character, Men, Judging

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• We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

  Cecile Richards

  Volunteer, Abortion, Female

  "Peace Corps Volunteers to Finally Receive Same Abortion Coverage as Federal Employees" by Caitlin Moscatello, www.glamour.com. December 15, 2014.

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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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• 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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• I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Heart, Optimistic

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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