Quotes About Rights

In our Constitution, it is said that we have freedom of speech and freedom of expression. In my mind, unless that freedom is total, it is no freedom at all.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

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.

Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.