Fairness

Fairness is a virtue. Fairness compliments justice and equality. The result of practicing fairness is to transcend grievance and injustice.

Our court system in USA is the best place for fairness.

There is a website: www.fairness.com  to use as a source for keeping up on important fairness issues. Their tag line: Life isn’t fair…but we’re working on it. ®

Quotes on fairness:

•My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value – I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone. – Mike Honda

•The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children. – Marian Wright Edelman

•These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. – Abraham Lincoln

•Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family’s income, it is a family issue. – Rosa DeLauro

•Fairness is what justice really is. – Potter Stewart