The Commission on Social Justice, set up by John Smith, reported in 1994 that the values of social justice were: equal worth of citizens, equal rights to be able to meet their basic needs, the requirement to spread opportunities as much as possible, and the need to remove unjustified inequalities.
Items in this scale included "I feel good about myself"; "I feel I am a person of worth, the equal of other people"; "I feel I do not have much to be proud of" (reverse coded).
If we have high self-esteem and know that we have great worth, we attract someone who is of equal worth, who is our partner, and who treats us with the love and respect that we deserve.
His life's work is not a book – though he has written many – but a community, L'Arche, where the disabled are welcomed and treated as being of equal worth, perhaps greater worth, than their helpers.
The objection to preferring group A in order to gain indirect economic benefits can also be put in terms of equality, the equal moral worth of persons, and specifically the equal concern and respect morally owed to all persons.
CONAGRA FOODS, Omaha, Neb., the maker of Peter Pan peanut butter and Hebrew National hot dogs, said its board authorized the repurchase of up to $1 billion worth of common stock, equal to about 40 million shares.
Fannie and Freddie together own or back more than half of the country's $12 trillion in mortgages, and each month the two companies guarantee $100 billion worth of new mortgages, equal to three out of every four mortgages originated.
Undeterred by huge price increases over Candlestick Park tickets, fans and corporations have bought $403 million worth of seats, -- equal to the cost spent to build the stadium so far -- and the Niners are well ahead of schedule to sell out before the 2014 opening, the team said Friday.
The Old Labour fixation on equality of outcomes was replaced by a new notion of "equal worth".
The central value of the new socialism is equality, the belief that each individual is irreplaceable and of equal worth.
