Quotes About Activism

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

There is no issue that is not a women's issue.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, 'power to the women.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.