Clara Zetkin Quotes

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

We will have a female President.

What we suffragettes aspire to be when we are enfranchised is ambassadors of freedom to women in other parts of the world, who are not so free as we are.

It is quite time that we [women] had our own party, our own platform, and our own nominees. We shall never have equal rights until we take them.

Today we round out the first century of a professed republic,—with woman figuratively representing freedom—and yet all free, save woman

Women will take their places beside men as partners, unafraid, useful, successful, and free

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.

Yes, I'm a suffragist.

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they must have the right to mount the public platform.

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

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.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Equality for women is progress for all.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.