Quotes About Rights

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

You people are right - I am for equal rights for women. I am for that female jobs such as feeding husband and children be considered as valuable as male jobs.

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.

Abortion is profoundly anti-women.

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.