Quotes About Freedom

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.

It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.

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.

Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'

I'm doing all sizes. It's a strange thing to stop at a certain size. Women don't, so why should clothes?

Feminism means that we all seek to live fulfilled lives, whatever that means for each of us, and we should have the equal ability to do that. Nothing should limit us simply because we're women.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

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

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.