Quotes About Rights

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

Men and women are not equal.

We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

The provision of toilets is a minimum requirement for the dignity of our women.

Women and men are equal human beings.

There are wonderful things having to do with women's health. But not when it comes to abortion.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.