Ayad Al-Qazzaz Quotes

Once women got the right to vote, the kind of relaxed about everything. It was not until after World War II that women discovered that they did not have equal opportunity in the workplace.... The result was almost a revolution.

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

Perhaps the major challenge during my time in office was getting employers to understand how much more needed to be done to give women their fair share of employment opportunities.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

This is the first generation where, to any extent, men and women are working together as equals.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. If women are given equal pay for Civil Service jobs, maybe other employers will do the same.

There must be equal opportunities for women. There is no difference between man and woman in their creation, in their humanity, in their pursuit of knowledge, in their understanding, in their intelligence, in their religious piety, in serving God and in serving people.

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.

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

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

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

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.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

Women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men in the exercise of suffrage ... and in all other respects.

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.