Quotes About Rights

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

Freedoms in Iran are genuine, true freedoms. Iranian people are free. Women in Iran enjoy the highest levels of freedom. In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

There's always been a women's movement this century!

We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.