Quotes About Rights

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional.

A society can never be free without women's liberation

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.