Asma Jahangir Quotes

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

A new democracy cannot be built on the persecution of women.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.

At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary.

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

Unless the woman is liberated, there is no freedom in Iraqi land.