Women's Rights Quotes - Page 8

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

Martha Plimpton

Rights, Needs, Movement

"Uniting on the War Against Women" by Marcia G. Yerman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.

Ralph Nader

Wife, House, Feminist

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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

Abigail Adams

Sex, Class, Intellectual

Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.24

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In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others

Paul Martin

Real, Opportunity, Equality

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When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the United States until very recently. Women's rights were unheard of. Civil rights proponents were horribly treated, not just in the South. It was awful there, but pretty bad here. Environmental issues did not exist. Opposition to aggression was virtually zero. In fact, so little, that to this day, even scholarship mentions the Vietnam War as beginning in 1965.

Noam Chomsky

Zero, War, Rights

Source: www.truth-out.org

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...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.

Riane Eisler

Women, Keys, People

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I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the panel - Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Brown, Phil Spector, Robert Blake and committee chairman O.J. Simpson.

Jay Leno

Rights, Iran, Brown

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Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

Jane Fonda

Girl, Education, Women

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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

Jane Fonda

Girl, Empowering, Things Change

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And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

Anna Garlin Spencer

Children, Italian, Years

Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

Kathleen Turner

Women, Government, Hygiene

"CNN Sunday Morning" with Catherine Callaway, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2004.

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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Victoria Woodhull

Happiness, Women, Rights

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...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Churchor State; and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--and thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually.

Angelina Grimke

Believe, Rights, Law

Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.191, Penguin

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All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.

Lucy Stone

Taken, Law, Land

Speech as president of a national convention of the Woman's National Loyal League, May 14, 1863.

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...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women'srights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.

Virginia Gildersleeve

Jobs, Get Better, Principles

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

Belva Ann Lockwood

Law, Racism, Prejudice

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You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?

Malala Yousafzai

Leadership, Girl, Education

"Watch This Incredible Young Woman Render Jon Stewart Speechless". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, www.upworthy.com. October 10, 2013.

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... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.

Catharine Beecher

Sex, Organization, Order

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Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. But that's ridiculous. My mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.

Amy Poehler

Mother, Rights, Issues

Source: egomagazine.ae

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Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Men, Rights, Hands

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In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.

Bernie Sanders

Jobs, Fighting, Views

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I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Thinking, Rights, Wish

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The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.

Angelina Grimke

Wall, Lying, Mean

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It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.

Joyce Brothers

Opportunity, Men, World

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It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.

Susan B. Anthony

Men, Law, Support

Quoted in Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1899) Apelles

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