Quotes About Rights

When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.

I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

The government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families in accordance with their faith, with medical advice. And I will stand up for that right.

I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I do think women should have a choice but also that women should be making responsible decisions.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.