Anna Julia Cooper Quotes

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

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.

I do wear a lot of hats, and sometimes people get confused with all that I do, but one thing that I am extraordinarily passionate about is furthering women's rights. I think it's something that's incredibly important, not just for girls everywhere but also boys to get involved in.

Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization that the battle for women's rights is not over, especially not globally, and that the moral imperative of our century is to achieve full rights for everyone regardless of gender.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

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

Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

There are no such things as women's issues! All issues are women's issues.

We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women.

Women's rights are human rights.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

I think we've come a long way with women's rights, but we've got a long way to go.

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.