Barack Obama Quotes

Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.

Other things equal, we should give a chance to women. That's what I try to do.

Of course there should be women empowerment, women should get every right. They need to fight for it because the society doesn't look at women equally, and that's not fair.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.

Sometimes when I talk, I sound like a feminist because I get really angry when I hear certain things. For instance, a lot of families don't really educate their girls much while they educate their sons to the full extent. I think that's not fair.

The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

I've got two daughters and I want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have. That's part of what I'm fighting for as president of the United States.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history.

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It had to. America could not become America until it dealt with that. And did it deal with it perfectly? No. But it had to confront it.

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

I consider myself conscious of how women are treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist. Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat. Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry. I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females. I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace and we're only given 70 percent of our counterparts' salaries, then we shouldn't have to pay but 70 percent of our college tuition. Maybe that'll stop the bullshit.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.

I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

I don't deal in the world of fair. The NFL is the no fair league and I experienced that as much as anybody.