Quotes About Advocacy

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

I am always on the women's side.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

I believe in the power of the voice of women.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

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.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.