Quotes About Rights

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.