Jimmy Carter Quotes

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.

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

It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

In the Greece of 200 B.C. … the murder of female infants was so common that among 6,000 families living in Delphi no more than 1 percent had two daughters

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

I stand second to none in condemning sexual harassment of women.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

No one has the right to harass anyone. I fully support the #MeToo movement.

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

I first understood the changes that were necessary in this world, because the waiters in the restaurant, when I cried, used to say, "Leave her on the hillside to die. She's only a girl baby." I think they said it somewhat as a joke, maybe not, but it made me understand that being born female in this world was very different from being born male.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

I don't like men. They're saying they're going to bash my head in.

I will never understand how a mother can kill her own baby and not get away with it.