Quotes About Rights

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

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

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.

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

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

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

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

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

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.