“I am absolutely behind equal rights but I am also bridging the gap between cultural mentality and society's mindset as there are huge amount of gaps that need to be addressed and progress needs to be made. Yeah I am a feminist, it is not a difficult thing to explain.” NeedsMadeDifficultBehindsRightsProgressHugeAmountEqualYeahFeministMindsetGapsMentalityEqual RightsDifficult ThingsBridging The Gap Author:Hozier
“More and more people will now start realizing that we are actually equal to one another and that nobody will re-establish the balance or stability within this unless each and every one stands up.” PeopleRealizingBalanceEqualStability Author:Timothy Treadwell
“The amount of grace I would expect from God should be equal to the amount of grace I can gather or earn. I get out what I put in.” ShouldI CanGraceAmountEqual Author:George Harrison
“We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.” EqualBasesConstitutionDemocraticSouthSouth Africa Author:Nelson Mandela
“You'll also hear about the widening gap in the educated and the uneducated. The liberals will all say, "We must do something about it" and some in our population swoon, "Oh, yes, it's so unfair, and so unfortunate, and we've gotta do something about the inequality." So the Democrats then have their reason to do something about it, and the way they go about it is not trying to make people equal at all. The way they go about it is not even rooted in changing inequality, at the end of the day. The way they go about it is destructive for everybody.” PeopleWayTryingEndsReasonEqualDemocratPopulationEducatedInequalityThe End Of The DayDestructiveGapsRootedUnfortunateUnfairUneducated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats tell all the poor people and all of the middle class that they're only where they are 'cause the rich have cheated them, exploited them, or stolen all their money. The way they're gonna make it equal is to take from those people who have just won life's lottery, the premise being that the poor and the rich and the middle class are gonna get the money.” PeopleWayCausesPoorClassRichMiddleEqualDemocratMiddle ClassPoor PeopleStolenPremisesCheatedLottery Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Barack Obama today is directing every federal agency to make sure we evaluate candidates on the level without regard to their employment history. So if you are a rotten employee, if you don't show up on time, if you don't get any work done, that cannot be examined as whether or not it makes sense to hire you. What we're gonna do is make sure that we only hire people who have been out of work the longest, because that's fair, regardless their work history, regardless whether they're qualified, this is Obama making it equal.” PeopleIfsHas BeensDoneShowsTodayLevelsEqualFairsRegardEmploymentBarackMake SenseAgencyCandidatesEmployeeQualifiedRottenEvaluateWork Done Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I would say one thing writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] did for me was underscore the fact that this issue [all men are created equal] has never been properly addressed and it hasn't gone away.” MenWritingBookFactsGoneIssuesOne ThingEqualGone Away Author:George Saunders
“There's a lot of lies out there that we should catch and that have taken me a lot of time to sort of see, and reading up on it and getting educated on it. I'm reading a book that's about how images of beauty have hurt women along the decades. It's a very educating but infuriating thing to see, how we don't have equal opportunity because they're demanding so much more.” ShouldBookLyingReadingOpportunityHurtTakenEqualDecadesEducatedEqual OpportunityInfuriating Author:Karla Souza
“Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.” OpportunityQualityTrumpEqualEqual OpportunityOffendersRedeemingRedeeming Qualities Author:Trevor Noah
“If a woman says, I love myself; I love my body; I'm comfortable with my life, comfortable with my mistakes, and I deserve a seat at every table and everything should be completely equal, there are guys who lose their minds.” IfsShouldMindBodyGuyLosesMistakeEqualComfortableDeserveTablesSeatsMy MistakesLove MyselfI Love Myself Author:Judd Apatow
“If gay marriage is a real thing, gay infertility must be a real thing. It's not fair. I mean, it wasn't fair they couldn't get married, and now it's not fair that they can't have babies, even though they're not infertile, that doesn't matter. And so there must be access to infertility insurance for married gay couples, if our culture and if our society is to be fair and equal for one and all, and it is coming, and don't laugh about it.” IfsMeanRealMatterCultureLaughingBabyCoupleGayEqualMarriedFairsAccessOur SocietyGay MarriageReal ThingsNot FairInfertilityGay Couples Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican establishment, the Democrat establishment agree and accept that the media is an equal player in the ruling class. Trump has blown all of that out the window. As such, the normal ways that people in politics are controlled, the normal way that people are contained - the ways people are promoted, punished, destroyed, what have you - are all out the window where Trump is concerned. And therefore the media is considered by the ruling class to be one of the great leveling factors.” PeopleWayAcceptingClassPlayerMediaTrumpRepublicanEqualNormalConcernedWindowAgreeDemocratFactorsDestroyedControlledEstablishmentRuling Author:Rush Limbaugh
“So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.” WayWantedHouseDifferencesBehindsCareersBreakSawsWifeCenturyFiguresPaintingEqualBackgroundsDefinedNineteenth CenturyCattleForeground Author:Kehinde Wiley
“It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsMayHardHelpingBigsWould BeFallHouseNationsBreakHard WorkEqualOrdinaryMachinesBottomRussiaBlockCommunistSwingsBackwardsEasternLaddersTippingBulgaria Author:Robin Leach
“If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.” IfsWantGovernmentLawTurnsAttentionRightsMovementHeroGayEqualCivil RightsFederal GovernmentCivil Rights MovementGreat Hero Author:Cleve Jones
“Men in America were terrified that if women got an equal say in society, the system would collapse and their lives would be valued less. Whites in America were scared that if blacks obtained their freedom and equality, the system would collapse and their lives would be devalued. Heterosexuals are terrified that the psychotic institution of marriage will collapse if gays are given their right to marry. And humans are terrified that if animals are liberated and no longer viewed as inferior subordinates, human life will be valued less.” IfsMenHumansWould BeAmericaGivenAnimalGayEqualInstitutionsScaredHuman LifeCollapseInferiorsTerrifiedLiberatedSubordinatesPsychoticFreedom And Equality Author:Gary Yourofsky
“If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I'm counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don't have access to the contraceptives they need?” IfsNeedsBelieveTwoUseValuesSonEqualDaughterAccessServingMy SonContraceptivesTwo Daughters Author:Melinda Gates
“To me, there's two definitions of feminism. One is that you believe that women are equal human beings; that's not really a philosophy, it's just obvious. And the other is that you're actually fighting for women: you're promoting women and working towards the betterment of women.” BelieveHumansTwoPhilosophyFightingHuman BeingsFeminismEqualDefinitionsObviousPromotingBetterment Author:Stephen Marche
“America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the emperor's a god, or idolized, or we have to do what the dear leader says. And, expressly, that it's a system of equal rights, and then governments are instituted to secure those rights.” PeopleFirstsCountryGovernmentAmericaLeaderRightsDivineKingsEqualDearSecureEqual RightsEmperorDivine RightIdolizedDivine Right Of Kings Author:Charles Koch
“I'd like to see a rebirth of America - go back where there's equal rights for everybody and that people succeed to the extent that they help other people improve their lives. To lead toward a society that maximizes peace, civility, and well-being for everyone.” PeopleWellsHelpingAmericaRightsSucceedEqualHelping OthersWell BeingRebirthEqual RightsCivility Author:Charles Koch
“In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and these violations of the basic principles of equal rights - certain people have more rights than others - it's like "Animal Farm." The pig says that we all have equal rights, but some have more rights than others.” PeopleThinkingProblemAmericaCertainAnimalPrinciplesRightsEqualFarmsPigsEqual RightsViolationBasic Principles Author:Charles Koch
“Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort to make the equality principle everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they weren't held back by the society in which they lived and particularly the shame of slavery.” IfsMenWantedEffortPrinciplesEqualShameIndependenceSlaveryFoundersDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceAdvocacy Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.” KnowsMenMaySeemsGovernmentCareTodayYoungRightsDoorsOne ThingEqualMen And WomenConcernFundamentalsInstrumentsStatementsGrantedYoung WomenCitizenshipStatureClosed Doors Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Every religion you are, every ethnicity you are, every sex you are, if you're gay or straight. You should be considered as equal as anybody else. That's super-simple, but apparently we have to still march for it.” IfsShouldStillsSexSimpleGayEqualMarchEthnicity Author:Bianca Balti
“I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.” MenShouldBelieveGivenI BelieveChanceEqualMen And WomenBelieve In MeServing God Author:Jimmy Carter
“We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes us Americans. When we sign onto that belief, we sign onto the core American identity, and that's very deep in us.” MenBeliefNationsLibertyIdentityEqualCoreDedicatedPropositionsVery DeepAmerican Identity Author:Daniel Fried
“The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.” MenWarTakenEqualSentencesCivil WarSoutherner Author:Daniel Fried
“I mean, if it's worth a cover story that men and women are born different, what in the world must you believe and who got you to believe it?And I'm telling you: It's feminism and liberalism and all these things that seek to make everybody the same, to make everybody "equal," to have equal outcomes, make sure nobody's offended or humiliated, and to make sure nobody's really that much better than anybody else 'cause it isn't fair all these differences.” IfsMenWorldBelieveMeanDifferentStoriesCausesBornDifferencesFeminismEqualMen And WomenFairsOutcomesLiberalismOffendedHumiliated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.” ArtBookEmotionalSucceedEqualArt IsDignityComplexesComplexityUgliness Author:Joshua Mohr
“I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than of what a feminist would look like. They assumed that if you could get a man, you wouldn't want anything else - what else could you possibly want? So that feminists who were talking about such things as equal pay must be doing so because they were unable to get a husband to support them, and therefore they must be ugl - this was the sort of train of thought. So because I looked different from the stereotype, then people would comment.” PeopleIfsMenWantLooksDifferentRememberPayTalkingSupportHusbandEqualExpectationsTrainFeministCommentStereotypeLooking GoodEqual PayTrain Of Thought Author:Gloria Steinem
“Women and men are equal human beings.” MenHumansHuman BeingsEqualMen And Women Author:Gloria Steinem
“You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.” PeopleValuesEqual Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally American - the idea that everybody's equal, that the rights of women and men should be the same, that there should be no discrimination on religious or sexual orientation, that democracy and rule of law and due process are the ways in which society should govern themselves and minorities should be cared for.” PeopleMenWayShouldIdeasAmericaLawValuesProcessReligiousDemocracyRightsEqualMen And WomenDuesSensesDiscriminationChampionMinoritiesRule Of LawOrientationDue Process Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I worked with the Nato Military Committee. The Head of the Luxembourg Armed Forces had equal standing with me, and I had to respect that. He was the leader of the armed forces of a sovereign country. I had to make sure he never thought that I was looking down on them, merely because they had less power than we did. With that kind of approach you can develop bonds of trust. I tried to do the same thing with my colleagues when I was Secretary of State.” KindCountryStatesForceLeaderMilitaryEqualApproachStandingSecretaryCommitteesSovereignColleaguesNatoArmed ForcesLooking Down Author:Colin Powell
“Even if America tomorrow - and it won't happen overnight - but if we did reduce our demand for gas and natural gas and crude oil by a significant degree, that does have an exponential effect on producers in the Middle East, everything else being equal. But if China's demand is growing and India's demand is growing, they are not going back.” IfsDoeHappensAmericaNaturalGrowingMiddleEffectsTomorrowDemandEqualDegreesIndiaChinaOilEastSignificantProducersGasMiddle EastCrudeNatural GasBeing EqualCrude Oil Author:Thomas Friedman
“The reason that we are becoming less equal is because of the greater requirements, secure requirements, for a good job. This goes back to the '80s basically, this started changing as globalization and the IT revolution merged, and each started to drive the other.” ReasonJobsGreaterRevolutionBecomingEqualSecureRequirements80sGlobalizationGood Job Author:Thomas Friedman
“It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.” PeopleCountryWould BeCareCommonTalkingLibertyEnvironmentRightsGayEqualCommon SenseSmokeMarijuanaDecencyEqual RightsCivil LibertiesGay People Author:Rick Steves
“Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the coming of a Messiah. Until someone proves otherwise, therefore, these stories must be considered nothing more than folk tales consisting in equal parts of legend and wish fulfillment.” BelieveStoriesWantedWishRecordsWrittenProveEqualFolksTalesFulfillmentLegendsMessiah Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“On a nationwide basis, I would guess that the various churches would have to pay annually an amount at least equal to the national debt. But it's impossible for me to make an exact estimate, because the churches hide their wealth in every way they can - deliberate falsification as to the value of property, registering it under phony names in order to obscure the fact that the Church owns the property.” WayFactsValuesOrderNamesChurchWealthPayImpossibleAmountEqualBasesPropertyVariousDebtObscureDeliberatePhonyNational DebtFalsification Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.” HumanityBeliefSocialColorSourceEqualDignityBackgroundsRevealingSocial Status Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Property rights can improve a woman's ability to stand up to violence in the home. You might think education and employment are important because they give women exit options, but property is as well. Give women equal property rights to inherited land, then they have an asset they can take out of the marriage. This gives husbands strong incentives to not beat them.” ThinkingGivingWellsImportantHomeMightStrongAbilityRightsViolenceLandHusbandEqualBeatsPropertyEmploymentAssetsIncentivesExitProperty Rights Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I think the obstacle for women is that their lives are intertwined with the lives of men. Change at the very deepest level of one's daily life and one's being is required if women are to be really equal.” IfsThinkingMenLevelsEqualObstaclesDaily LifeVery DeepIntertwined Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I don't even really understand that concept of someone being 'smart' or someone else being 'smarter.' I think that except for the obvious special cases, we're all equal.” ThinkingCasesSpecialEqualSmartConceptsObviousSmarterBeing Smart Author:Ab-Soul
“Nowadays with the internet, it's an equal opportunity brutal playing field. I mean, everyone is brutal to everybody half the time. People can be unbelievably brutal on the internet, about everything. But they can also be really, really nice. The problem is that human beings like to focus on the negative sometimes, unfortunately.” PeopleHumansMeanSometimesProblemOpportunityHuman BeingsHalfFocusNiceFieldsInternetEqualNegativeBrutalReally NiceEqual OpportunityPlaying Fields Author:Lea Thompson
“Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.” KnowsWayLongCultureGamesSocialJusticeLevelsPathCostConflictEqualSocial JusticeStakesNonviolenceInvolvement Author:Martin Sheen
“Not to get too depressing, I've always been a slight whirling dervish in my life. I've always been at once a very spritely and energetic hilarious lady, but at the same time there is an equal dark side that's as comparable to the jovial - constantly walking on the high wire trying to figure out who to be each day.” TryingSidesDarkFiguresWalkingEqualEach DayDepressingWireDark SideEnergeticJovialWhirling Dervish Author:Karen Elson
“I think in a society where you can't even pass the Equal Rights Amendment, it's very difficult to women make a progress. Incidentally, we are exactly 160 years after the very first women's public rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, when a handful of women started it all and began the movement to make women equal.” ThinkingFallDifficultProgressEqualEqual Rights Author:Carolyn Maloney
“We have not ratified The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Among Women. I think 194 countries have signed onto it, but the United States has not. And CEDAW to the United Nations is what the Equal Rights Amendment or the women's equality amendment is to the United States. I think we should pass the women's equality amendment and a lot of these other fights would go away.” ThinkingCountryFightingEqualDiscriminationGoing AwayUnited NationsEqual Rights Author:Carolyn Maloney