Inequity Quotations

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.

One of the most obvious pictures of inequity in our district is in the elementary level, and it has to do with technology.

Nobody ever said it was fair. The inequity it fixed was far greater than the one it created.

When you really look in depth, the reason we're losing people offshore is the inequity of our tax code as compared to our competitors overseas,

I can't live with this inequity for another five years.

If the government takes a person's land to build a highway, the property owner is compensated. If the government takes the use of a person's land to protect a rare species, however, the property owner is not compensated. This inequity must be addressed.

I first became aware of this gross inequity when I was a San Jose City Council, and I have been working to resolve pay disparities ever since.

Previously, someone like a plumber, who may have run his office from home and had a secretary there, could not take this deduction because he provided goods and services outside the home. Of course, the IRS realized the inequity there and changed the rules.

These data shatter the illusion of a fair distribution of per-pupil spending in California. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the glaring inequity in the distribution of teacher talent and teacher dollars.

There are a lot of toxic work environments in local government, and it's because of inequity issues that sprout up. I believe that just as performance teams and empowerment energize an organization, equity issues sap energy, and you have to deal with those.

If one of the goals is to address the inequity - if you leave the base rate, you do not address the inequity.

This move helps balance our roster. We had a lot of talented wing players competing for minutes but were depleted in the frontcourt due to injuries, so we addressed that inequity with this trade.

They happened to fine people for grade deficiencies and fine people in Title IX cases. So if there is a true inequity in a racial aspect, I guess you could (levy fines). You have to have some legal teeth.

All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life