Ibrahim Nawar Quotes

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

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

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.

Saudi women far outnumber their male counterparts on university campuses but are reduced to watching men far less qualified control every aspect of their lives.

Denying women the right to drive has imposed huge costs on Saudi citizens.

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 not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

I believe the decree should be repealed. It is extremely humiliating for women to be treated as criminals. The decree only gives men more legal weapons to use against women in case of marital problems.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

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

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

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

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

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.

Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.

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

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

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.