Quotes About Activism

The Million Man March would never have been successful if it were not for the women who stood with us and helped to organize to make the March what it eventually became.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

There's always been a women's movement this century!

If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'

Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

When it comes to Hillary Clinton, it is really about mobilizing and energizing women voters to turn out to the polls.

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it!

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see.

Real men are advocates for women's rights.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.