Unfair Quotes - Page 17

• We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Discrimination, Poor, Conviction

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is unjust. I always say, "We are all people living with AIDS." It's not like you can avoid it. It's part of our world.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Our World, People, Unjust

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

  Gregory David Roberts

  People, Shantaram, Praise

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.408, Hachette UK

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• For me photography had an immediacy... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography.

  Jerome Liebling

  Photography, Issues, People

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• Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

  Frank Ocean

  Moving, Artist, Simple

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you strategize a relationship too much, like, "We're not gonna be public about it, and we're gonna say this in interviews," when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship and I think that's unfair for the relationship.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Too Much, Interviews

  "Q&A: Taylor Swift's 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 27, 2009.

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• Remember every team wants to beat Chelsea, probably even more than Manchester United or Arsenal because they believe we have an unfair advantage.

  Frank Lampard

  Team, Believe, England

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• In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Effort, Might

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• Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

  Sara Shandler

  Elderly, People, Age

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• When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.

  Jenny Lawson

  Crazy, Cutting, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the things I'm gonna do and I have tremendous support with the evangelicals and with the Christians and with everybody, is we're going to get rid of the Johnson Amendment that is very, very unfair.

  Donald Trump

  Christian, Support, Amendments

  Source: time.com

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• Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where you have to have a melding of both. But it's very unfair what they're doing to religion in this country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Religious, Liberty

  Donald Trump's Remarks to a Veterans Group, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.

  Demi Lovato

  Men, Talking, United States

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally.

  Sutton Foster

  Work Out, Needs, That One Person

  "Younger Stars Sutton Foster and Nico Tortorella Answer All Your Relationship Questions". www.cosmopolitan.com. September 28, 2016.

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• It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

  Donald Trump

  Media, Long, Stories

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think its ridiculous. I mean the voter ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development. We may have people vote 10 times.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "What’ll Republicans Do When Trump Says Hillary Stole The Election?". Washington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2016.

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• I thought it was very unfair. I thought what happened to Mitt Romney was very unfair in the third debate. So, I'd want to be. I'd want to have somebody that I think could be fair.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Want, Debate

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In the Rather/Bush incident, it was totally unfair. CBS was trying him and convicting him and trying to execute him on national television. They had made up their minds. CBS made the fatal error of trying to become the political opposition to George Bush. And, when they did that, they put themselves in an arena where they can get knocked on their fanny.

  Roger Ailes

  Errors, Political, Mind

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• As long asthe audience or the public perceives you to be sincere in your approach and not petty, they will think it's fair and they will wait for the other person's response. But if they sense it's petty or the slightest bit unfair, they'll turn on you right away.

  Roger Ailes

  Thinking, Long, Waiting

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.

  Pico Iyer

  Mean, Tolerance, Speech

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Instead of engaging on the merits and saying, "Well, we want an open border, you know, we really do," and that's all good for America because they know the people will reject that, they [the elites] attack Donald Trump as an extremist, which I think is unfair.

  Jeff Sessions

  Thinking, America, People

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Crush, Men, Evil

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• In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

  Preet Bharara

  Black, Information, Financial

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• You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. That’s an unfair double standard.

  Ellen Page

  Creating, People, Actresses

  "Reading Ellen Page’s Sexuality" by Marcie Bianco, www.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair.

  Matt Damon

  School, Mean, Kids

  "Matt Damon: where did it all go right for the leftwing activist, devoted dad and intelligent action star?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2013.

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