Quotes on Womens Rights

Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

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.

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

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

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.