Sayani Gupta Quotes

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

In the developing countries the United Nations doesn't mean frustration, confrontation or condemnation. It means environmental sanitation, agricultural production, telecommunications, the fight against illiteracy, the great struggle against poverty ignorance and disease.

Without education, you can’t have democracy.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

I'm Palestinian, I'm disabled, I'm female and I live in New Jersey.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts.

No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.

We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

I'm not going to say how, specifically, but I will continue to speak out about human rights and freedoms. Absolutely. We can speak out about what we are angry about, but the most important thing is to try and help people understand the reality and not be blinded by something that is not the truth.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your kids, or anybody - because we're all innocent of the fact that we are the way we are. But it also means the ways that you coped, and the languages and narratives and points of view that you had no choice but to make from the sidelines - and that often carried with them really acute readings of dominant society - those no longer have the same need.

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

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.