Jagmeet Singh Quotes

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

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

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics... ? Is it right that while the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?

Sexism is real.

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics...? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?

For more than six thousand years the history of woman has been one of hopeless sadness. She moved only to the clank of chains, and her vain desire for better and higher things could not find expression, for woman was by force of circumstances inarticulate. Detraction of one sex and exaltation of the other became a habit of mind expressed in law, in religion, in literature as well as in the ordinary activities of everyday life.

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

By sheer force of a vicious custom even the most ignorant and worthless of men have been enjoying a superiority [over women] which they do not deserve and ought not to have.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.

I didn't need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who's a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists.

Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work or people have shown disinterest in working with me because I was unwilling to succumb to this unspoken understanding of patriarchy.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

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

I hate the victimization of women, always.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?