Fair Trade Quotes
32 quotes by 29 authors
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God…
— Meister Eckhart
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On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that…
— Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find…
— Russ Feingold
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To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead…
— Joe Baca
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Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
— Chris Martin
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Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and…
— Paul Rice
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China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by…
— Virginia Foxx
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It hit me very early on that something was terribly wrong, that I would see silos full of food and supermarkets full of food, and…
— Medea Benjamin
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Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest…
— Miguel A. Altieri
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NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
— Michael Badnarik
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The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to…
— Colin Firth
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When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee…
— Colin Firth
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We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be…
— Victor Suarez Melendez
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When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a…
— Emma Thompson
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Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement.…
— Paul Rice
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Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In…
— Nancy Pelosi
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Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.
— Stephen F. Lynch
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I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that…
— Elizabeth Dole
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The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.
— Michael Dean Crapo
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We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully…
— Shigeru Yoshida
Who Wrote These Fair Trade Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 32 Fair Trade Quotes, led by these top contributors: