Women's Rights Quotes - Page 12

• We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Opportunity, Reality

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• Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Years, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  Roots, Rights, Causes

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

  Zainab Salbi

  Rights, Order, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

  Robert Burns

  Kings, Children, Humorous

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.85

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• I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.

  Jean Sasson

  Rights, Links, Weakest Link

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• Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Girl, Suicide, Depressing

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• I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

  Laura Bush

  Thinking, Important, Wade

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• Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heaven, Earth, Philosopher

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Numbers, Body

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• 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.

  Eve Ensler

  Numbers, House, One Day

  Eve Ensler (2010). “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”, p.43, Villard

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• The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.

  Steven Pinker

  Bullying, Children, Gay

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• It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Men, Political

  Tribune (London), 12 Mar. 1906

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• Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.

  Abbi Glines

  Real, Moving, Son

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• In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

  Holly Near

  Women, Believe, Gay

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• What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Country, Women, Fighting

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• The message of our campaign is "Make every mother and child count". This campaign is not just about health. It is also a powerful call for radical progress in women's rights and the rights of their children. Too often, the health of mothers and children does not count. In too many parts of the world, they are forgotten.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Powerful, Children

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• I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Women, Cancer

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• Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

  Swanee Hunt

  Women, Mean, Voice

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• What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Women, Exactly Is

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• In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Men, Rights

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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

  Patty Duke

  Awards, Rights, Treasure

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.295, Bantam

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  I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Mosaics, Movement

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• There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it by ourselves. I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women’s rights, but I am focusing on women to be independent and fight for themselves.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Independent, Fighting, Men

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.

  Chuck Todd

  Creating, Rights, California

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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