“Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldGivenPrinciplesCitizensEqualVoteStructure Author:Lawrence Lessig
“I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.” ThinkingWealthEconomicTrumpRepublicanEqualPicksEconomicsStrategyTraditionalCabinets Author:Rich Lowry
“There had been questions raised about whether we could ever really unite to work together on an issue, whether we could do it with equal passion and fervor. And it happened during my nomination and I think I forever will be grateful for that love, for that support and for proving those naysayers wrong.” ThinkingTogetherPassionSupportForeverIssuesHappenedProveEqualGratefulRaisedWorking TogetherBe GratefulNominationsFervorNaysayers Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.” ThinkingMenAbilityDecisionDangerousEqualVoteScaredOne ManMaking Decisions Author:Ray Dalio
“Historically and culturally the Mongol women were very strong, they contributed as much as the men to their society, their community. Other than upper body strength, I think they were equal to the men. To compensate for the lesser upper body strength they had to be smarter, they had to think more, they had to consider things more carefully.” ThinkingMenBodyStrongCommunityHe ManEqualVery StrongSmarterMongolsBody Strength Author:Joan Chen
“I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.” ThinkingGivingBelieveGovernmentTrumpEqualConstitutionBranchesLimited GovernmentBranches Of GovernmentSeparate But Equal Author:Paul Ryan
“It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.” PeopleThinkingWantProblemAmericaEasyWhitePayIssuesConversationEqualPercentConcernEntertainmentGapsEntertainersEqual PayEntertainment BusinessMyopic Author:Patricia Arquette
“I believe in equality. But I don't like the word feminist, because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable. You should be labeled if you're f-cking crazy.” IfsThinkingMenShouldBelievePersonsBeliefI BelieveCrazyEqualFeministI Believe InRationalReasonable Author:Michael Che
“I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.” PeopleThinkingChildrenAmericaFatherJusticeRightsGenerationsEqualInspiredCivil RightsLegacyTransformedWomens RightsGrandchildrenChildren And GrandchildrenEqual Justice Author:Caroline Kennedy
“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
“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
“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
“The construction of femininity is a construction, yes, but also it can be twisted and turned around in such a way that doesn't necessarily mean it is pointing to the female body or male body in such a binary fashion. The culture is already there and has always been, but not as equal citizens. I think there is more progress to come.” ThinkingMeanCultureProgressFashionEqualFemaleConstructionFemininityPointingTwistedBinaryFemale Body Author:Lorna Simpson
“The view I take is that while I'm proud to live in a free and prosperous country, I do believe American is a special land and should be a beacon to the world. And part of that leadership is that women are equal under the law and I do have concerns in how Trump talks about and treats women. I think it's very clear in his rhetoric that he sees them as second class citizens.” ThinkingWorldBelieveCountrySpecialProudEqualConcernRhetoricProsperous Author:Mindy Finn
“Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability in behavior that traditional virtue ethics requires for someone to have a one-word-in-English character trait such as "benevolence". Other things being equal, a person with more of a desire for other people's wellbeing will do more for other people's wellbeing, but things are almost never equal.” ThinkingCharacterDesireVirtueEqualBehaviorEthicsTraitsBenevolenceWellbeingPredictabilityBeing EqualCharacter Trait Author:Nomy Arpaly
“I think Democrats do a lot to talk the talk and don't do a lot to walk the walk on wage gap. I think Democrats like to make this a partisan issue and it's really not a partisan issue. Republicans are for equal pay and obviously have been on the record saying as such, and somehow the Democrats have created a false narrative that we are not for equal pay when in fact there's no truth to that.” ThinkingRepublicanEqualDemocrat Author:Katie Walsh
“I would love to say that I'm a humanist, but I think the word "feminist" still needs to exist to acknowledge that there's still a problem. It's a statement; we're not equal yet. There's still a fight to be fought.” ThinkingProblemFightingEqualFeministAcknowledgeHumanist Author:Erin Maya Darke
“Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children should be able to have lunch at school when their families can't afford to feed them properly, or to say women should have access to basic health care, or that Muslims deserve equal protection under the law, or police shouldn't be killing black people and getting away with it - it shouldn't be a political thing to say. A lot of people on the right standing behind Christian values should be standing with us, because equality is a basic tenet of Christianity.” PeopleThinkingChildrenCareSchoolChristianPoliticalValuesBlackChristianityEqualDeservePoliceKillingHuman RightsProtectionHealth CareGet AwayBlack People Author:Zoe Kazan
“Russia is a competitor. They're a strong nation, something we need to recognize, but their economy is just a little bit bigger than Illinois, so they're not our equal. I think its important to engage them. And I think it's important that we continue to fight for human rights, which is essential to denying the next generation of terrorists their recruits and this is a long-term fight we're in when it comes to the war on terror. And I think the Russians are exacerbating this by making people displaced and killing families and that's how you lead to radicalization.” PeopleThinkingImportantWarFightingStrongEconomyEqualKillingHuman RightsTerrorTerroristNext GenerationWar On Terror Author:Adam Kinzinger
“I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the mode where, "I've got to choose every good option." They should just play the game. And they should get equal consequences or rewards for that, that are different from the extremes.” ThinkingDifferentPlayerMoralityEqualConsequenceVery GoodFlawed Author:Chris Avellone
“There's a law of physics: For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. And sometimes that shows up in politics and society. And I think that the reaction to President Trump's decision on the Paris Agreement has been much stronger than I had even hoped for. And the determination being expressed by so many people in state governments, city governments, in the business community, the investor community, is really heartening to me.” PeopleThinkingSometimesActionPresidentCommunityDecisionEqualDeterminationStrongerPhysicsInvestors Author:Al Gore
“The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war. Already we have a very wasteful healthcare system, the most wasteful healthcare system in the world. I mean, we spend the most money and still have 40 million people without insurance. Compare us to Cuba. Cuba is our enemy, run by a dictator, Fidel Castro. But people in Cuba get health care at least equal to that of the United States - with very scarce resources. So I think this issue is the most important domestic issue.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingMeanLongImportantWarProblemCareRunningEnemyEqualHealth CareCompareHealthcareDictatorCastro Author:Howard Zinn
“You know, in physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, "Well, I need to react to that." I think that's happening.” PeopleThinkingSometimesActionEqualPhysicsNonsensical Author:Al Gore
“There are some really amazing artists and people behind the scenes who are really effective in championing feminism in the music industry, and I think that's really important for people in the industry and for young girls and guys to see. It should become universal. It's really about the other people understanding that everybody's equal and that women are equally as valid creatives, businesswomen, powerhouses...whatever you want to call them.” PeopleThinkingImportantArtistGuyGirlUnderstandingFeminismSceneEqualMusic IndustryReally Amazing Author:Charli XCX
“Most people think of a balanced life in terms of how much time is given to the various sectors of a life. While time is one measure of involvement, I think the critical variable is passion. How energized, fascinated and absorbed are you in each sphere in which you are engaged? They are rarely, and usually only briefly, equal.” PeopleThinkingPassionTermEqualVariousInvolvement Author:Judith M Bardwick
“I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights. In general, I would apply that to all nationalities and all races. I think we do need more awareness, generosity, and compassion than we have right now. But in terms of feminism, I embrace it wholeheartedly. Not in a kind of militant way, but I've always known that it matters.” ThinkingKindTermCompassionFeminismAwarenessEqualEmbraceGenerosityEqual RightsMilitantWholeheartedly Author:Julie Andrews
“I feel like there's not as many bands anymore. It's more like there's a front-person and a band supporting them, solo-type spirits that have a look, a vibe, a message, a voice and a style. I was talking about it with a journalist in Europe; he was like, "You're a democracy; everyone in the band does stuff." There's not a lot of bands I can think of that still have it so every member of the band has an equal say. I was like, dude, you're right. I can't really think of any right now. There might be one or two leaders in them, but there are not a lot of bands like that anymore.” ThinkingSpiritLeaderDemocracyStyleLike YouEqualJournalist Author:Ed Droste
“More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history.” ThinkingImportantOpportunityWishCommunityTakenEqualGood ThingsAbyssEqual Opportunity Author:Lady Gaga
“I think a core principle of the Democratic Party has to be a defense of equal rights for every American. At the same time, when you look at the election, and not just the 2016 election, but the elections to come, Democrats have to do better than we did in 2016 in communities, in rural communities where people feel like they've been in a slow burn recession or depression for years, not just months.” PeopleThinkingCommunityPartyEqualElectionDemocraticDemocratEqual RightsDemocratic Party Author:Neera Tanden
“I have a guy friend who said to me, "Hey, you know it's strange, feminism is cool now." I think now people understand that being a feminist means everyone should be equal. What really shocked me was being in America during the Republican primaries. I haven't been exposed to that kind of thinking. I was so shocked that that kind of thinking exists in a modern world, and in a first-world country.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindMeanCountryGuyFeminismModernStrangeRepublicanEqualFeministHey You Author:Abigail Tarttelin
“I think our mental picture of God is the most important fact about our life. All other things being equal, the beauty of our life won't outrun the beauty of our vision of God. Unfortunately, the God that many Christians envision is not completely Christ-like, but is rather influenced by the violent depictions of God in the Old Testament.” ThinkingImportantChristianVisionEqualViolentOld TestamentBeing Equal Author:Gregory A. Boyd
“We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that should be collectively financed and available to everyone on equal terms. My wife and I just interviewed the German minister of health, and it was an exhilarating experience, because it was a totally different language. It was obviously important that everyone should have the same deal in health care.” ThinkingImportantDifferentCountryCareLanguageTermWifeEqualMy WifeHealth CareCommodityExhilaratingSocial Service Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“I realized that women are still not seen as equal to men. We had a big wave of feminism just before my generation was born. We're still sitting on this wave. There are very militant people and very aggressive women at the top of that wave but I think we have a new version of it now.” PeopleThinkingMenFeminismEqualWaveI RealizedAggressiveMilitant Author:Carla Bruni
“I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.” ThinkingMenKindSituationLaughingEqualDifficultyShameElectionPresidentialDramaticPresidential Election Author:Ai Weiwei
“I know there's a part of the feminist world that is like, "Hey, screw 'em, we'll do our own thing over here," and I can see there's a value in that. But a kind of nudgy part of me thinks: No. I want access, and I want my daughters to have access to the exact same thing, because we all know there's no such thing as separate but equal.” ThinkingWorldKindValuesEqualDaughterFeministMy Daughter Author:Erin Belieu
“I think women are not interested in being like "the man" or having the same position as "the man." Women want to be women with equal rights. At this point now, we're very clear about that. I don't want to be the same as him. I want to be me with the same opportunity. So I think that's the difference of today than the fight that my mom had to fight, which was a little bit different and as complicated.” ThinkingMenDifferentTodayFightingOpportunityHe ManMomEqualMy MomComplicatedNot InterestedEqual RightsWomen Want Author:Kate Hudson
“Now, I think a lot of people look around and feel that we're relatively equal with men. In fact, women are now the majority of college graduates, we have role models like Hillary Clinton to look up to - it seems like the world is completely open to us and we can accomplish anything. I think feminists are often disdained today because we're seen as complaining about a problem people think no longer exists. I also think young women shy away from calling themselves feminists because many haven't been educated about it or exposed to it. They don't know enough about it to identify with it.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldEnoughProblemTodayCollegeEqualClintonFeministAccomplishComplainingEducatedLook UpShyRole ModelsGraduatesYoung WomenCollege Graduates Author:Julie Zeilinger
“I don't know if I'm a feminist, as much as I really love being a woman and I'm proud to be a woman. I love everything about it. That might come closest. I definitely have nothing against men or men having their power. I do think that the whole thing with equal rights and paying women equally, it's disgusting. I think in this day and age, if you still have issues with women, then that's weird. I'm definitely for women winning. We're such a wild species, we have so much to offer. I'm all about that - being for ourselves.” ThinkingMenAgeWinningLove IsProudEqualFeministThis DayDisgustingEqual Rights Author:Macy Gray
“We're all born listeners. And as a result of our modern lives, and living in a world that has less meaning than the natural world that we evolved to hear, we learn to think of listening not as taking in all the information with equal value, which is the definition of true listening. In our modern world, we tend to think of listening as focusing our attention on what is important and filtering out everything else.” ThinkingWorldImportantValuesNaturalAttentionModernListeningEqualLife And LivingNatural World Author:Gordon Hempton
“My musical style changes with every song that I make. I jokingly referred to it one time as 'emo thug', and I think that kind of stands because it's got equal parts of the aggressive confidence of the Dre beats I grew up listening to, and the emotion of like... emo music!” ThinkingKindSongEmotionStyleListeningEqualMusicalAggressiveEmo Author:The Last Skeptik
“It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in the 60s here, but when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they're entitled.” ThinkingMenHelpingStudyEqualConscienceWesternFeministAssumptionIslamicEmpoweringFed UpFeminist Movement Author:Asra Nomani
“I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas in my head. You do the best you can, you do it with patience and love, and then you give up. The moment you give up is when you know the book is done.” ThinkingGivingArtBookDoneMomentsEqualGiving UpArt IsUtopian Author:Lauren Groff
“In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively modern but the reality is an old one. One could with equal justification talk about a Judeo-Islamic tradition or a Christian-Islamic tradition. These three religions are interlinked in many signification ways, which marks them off from the rest of the world. And I think there is a growing awareness of this among Christians and among Jews, and even to some extent to some Muslims. That's happening for obvious reasons.” ThinkingWorldReasonRealityChristianTermCommonModernAwarenessEqualTraditionJewObviousJustification Author:Bernard Lewis
“I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.” ThinkingWayCertainPiecesPeriodsEasierEqualHarderDistanceContemporaryRelative Author:Ang Lee
“I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.” IfsThinkingBelieveDifferentSometimesI BelieveRightsEqualCapableFeministShouldersDimensionsChipsEqual RightsMilitantDifferent Dimensions Author:Marissa Mayer
“Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.” ThinkingDoneBornFiveDramaEqualBirdIslandsAgencyFifthDetectivesMessengersHighlightsJamaica Author:David Oyelowo
“I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.” ThinkingWholeRunningJobsDifferencesEqualApproachWhole LifeQueensEmpiresCookiesBakingVictoriaBaking Cookies Author:Martha Stewart