Women S Rights Quotes

Women S Rights Quote of the day

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

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.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.