Sushmita Banerjee Quotes

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia - that type of mentality - that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

Moslem fundamentalists use 7th century customs to keep 21st century women in line.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

Arab women are sacrificed on the alters of God and Money from the moment of birth to the hour of death.