Sasheer Zamata Quotes

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

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.

… the right to an abortion is society’s down payment on all the rights we [women] are yet due.

There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's inclusion and participation in sustainable development and sustaining peace.

My one suggestion going forward is, any felony committed against a woman should be a full-season suspension.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

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.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

I mean that I consider myself a feminist. I think anybody who thinks women and men should be treated equally is a feminist, whether or not they know it.

My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.

Our courts' decisions do not permeate the public consciousness - we have no equivalent of the Brown v Board of Education ruling which outlawed racial segregation, or of Roe v Wade, which enshrined a woman's right to choose not just into law but into the public imagination as well.