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Women's Rights
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Women
will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted
stream. Women are changing the stream, making
it clean and green and safe for all -- every
gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age,
and ability.
-- Bella
Abzug
The
test for whether or not you can hold a job should
not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Bella
Abzug
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The
connection between women's human rights, gender
equality, socioeconomic development and peace
is increasingly apparent.
--
Mahnaz Afkhami
Women's
empowerment is intertwined with respect for
human rights.
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Mahnaz Afkhami
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"…gender
equality is critical to the development and
peace of every nation."
-- Kofi
Annan
"…there
is no tool for development more effective than
the empowerment of women."
-- Kofi
Annan
"women
themselves have the right to live in dignity,
in freedom from want and freedom from fear.
On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate
ourselves to making that a reality.
-- Kofi
Annan
When
women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding
generations are given a better start in life.
-- Kofi
Annan
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"The
day will come when men will recognize woman
as his peer, not only at the fireside, but
in councils of the nation. Then, and not until
then, will there be the perfect comradeship,
the ideal union between the sexes that shall
result in the highest development of the race."
-- Susan
B. Anthony
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"Cautious,
careful people always casting about to preserve their
reputation or social standards never can bring about
reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing
to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation,
and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow
their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates,
and bear the consequences."
-- Susan
B. Anthony
"Independence
is happiness." -- Susan
B. Anthony
"There
never will be complete equality until women themselves
help to make laws and elect lawmakers." -- Susan
B. Anthony
"I
declare to you that woman must not depend upon the
protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself
and there I take my stand." -- Susan
B. Anthony
"The
dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to
men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths
ever created by the human mind."
-- Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958),
"For
what is done or learned by one class of women becomes,
by virtue of their common womanhood, the property
of all women."
-- Elizabeth Blackwell (The first woman in the U.S.
to become a physician)
"If
society will not admit of woman's free development,
then society must be remodeled."
-- Elizabeth Blackwell
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It
will not do to say that it is out of woman's
sphere to assist in making laws, for if that
were so, then it should be also out of her sphere
to submit to them.
-- Amelia
Bloomer
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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.
-- Carrie
Chapman Catt
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"We
ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the
civil and political rights that belong to citizens
of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our
daughters forever."
-- Declaration of Rights for Women, July 1876
What
we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no
illusions. Women do not change institutions simply
by assimilating into them. We need a feminism
that teaches a woman to say no ư not just to the
date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but,
when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy
within which she finds herself. We need a kind
of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into
the institutions that men have created over the
centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
-- Barbara
Ehrenreich |
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"For
most of recorded history, parental violence against
children and men's violence against wives was
explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had
the power to prevent and/or punish this violence
through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly
approved it. …..The reason violence against women
and children is finally out in the open is that
activists have brought it to global attention."
-- Riane
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"We've
chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us
around."
-- Geraldine Ferraro (The first woman to be nominated
as Vice President of the United States)
The
extension of women's rights is the basic principle
of all social progress.
-- Charles Fourier
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims.
The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
-- Betty
Friedan
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to
find herself, to know herself as a person,
is by creative work of her own. There is no
other way.
-- Betty
Friedan
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A
girl should not expect special privileges because
of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice
and discrimination.
-- Betty
Friedan
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"If
you have knowledge, let others light their candles
in it."
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"Male
and female citizens, being equal in the eyes
of the law, must be equally admitted to all
honors, positions, and public employment according
to their capacity and without other distinctions
besides those of their virtues and talents."
-- Olympe
de Gouges
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Every
day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart
disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize
that, in much of the world, the act of giving
life to a child is still the biggest killer
of women of child-bearing age?
-- Liya
Kebede
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
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Because
of their agelong training in human relations-for
that is what feminine intuition really is-women
have a special contribution to make to any group
enterprise.
-- Margaret
Mead
It
has been a woman's task throughout history to
go on believing in life when there was almost
no hope.
-- Margaret
Mead
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The
world has never yet seen a truly great and
virtuous nation, because in the degradation
of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned
at their source.
-- Lucretia
Mott
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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.
-- Alice
Paul
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
There
will never be a new world order until women
are a part of it.
-- Alice
Paul
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We
have to free half of the human race, the women,
so that they can help to free the other half
--Emmeline
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...the
Government must not think that they can stop this
agitation. It will go on...We are here not because
we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to
become law-makers.
--Emmeline
Pankhurst
What
is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got
a country to vote in?
--Emmeline
Pankhurst
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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.
-- Arundhati
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"The
women of this country ought be enlightened
in regard to the laws under which they live,
that they may no longer publish their degradation
by declaring themselves satisfied with their
present position, nor their ignorance, by
asserting that they have all the rights they
want."
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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However
sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism
must start with a belief in some group's greater
right to power, whether that right is justified
by sex, race, class, religion, or all four.
However far it may expand, the progression inevitably
rests on unequal power and airtight roles within
the family.
-- Gloria
Steinem
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This
is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex
and race because they are easy and visible differences
have been the primary ways of organizing human beings
into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap
labour in which this system still depends. We are
talking about a society in which there will be no
roles other than those chosen or those earned. We
are really talking about humanism.
-- Gloria
Steinem
“I
think, with never-ending gratitude, that the
young women of today do not and can never
know at what price their right to free speech
and to speak at all in public has been earned.”
--
Lucy Stone
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"I
have never been able to find out precisely what feminism
is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever
I express sentiments that differentiate me from a
doormat"
-- Rebecca West, 1913
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Let
not men then in the pride of power, use the
same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal
ministers have used, and fallaciously assert
that women ought to be subjected because she
has always been so.... It is time to effect
a revolution in female manners -- time to restore
to them their lost dignity.... It is time to
separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
-- Mary
Wollstonecraft
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I
do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over
themselves.
-- Mary
Wollstonecraft
Taught
from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind
shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt
cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
-- Mary
Wollstonecraft
Strengthen
the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be
an end to blind obedience.
-- Mary
Wollstonecraft
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