Zainab Salbi Quotes

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights — and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

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.

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.