Barack Obama Quotes

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

I trust the day is not far distant, when men and women shall be recognized as equal administrators of that great bulwark of civilization, law.

Never, till woman stands side by side with man, his equal in the eye of the law as well as the Creator, will the high destiny of the race be accomplished.

I believe men and women should be afforded the same opportunities.

The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

Women should have the same rights and respect and paychecks and everything, you know, they're human beings.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

Differences between male and female should not serve as a subterfuge for denying the human and civil rights that belong to us all … Women, like their male counterparts, should be judged by the law as individuals, not as a class of inferior beings.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

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.

All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.

Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that in some senses could be thought of as traditionally American: The idea that everybody is equal; the idea that the rights of women and men should be the same.

A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

I believe that women should be treated just like men.

What is feminism? We are just asking for equal opportunities, nothing beyond that. It doesn't mean that you cannot be pretty or you cannot cook or you can't do a whole lot of things. Feminism's got a bad rap; that's it.

I want to live in a Britain where there is a shared belief in freedom and democracy, and equal rights for men and women.

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in terms of freedom and liberation.