Hillary Clinton Quotes

If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote.

I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

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

For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

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

We have waited long enough to get the vote. We want it now!

How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.

Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. It wasn't until 1920, four years after my mother was born - and she's still alive and healthy - that women were given the right to vote. Now it's hard even to imagine that for the greater part of the history of our country fifty percent of the population was not allowed to vote.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

Equality for women is progress for all.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

But fighting to give women and girls a fighting chance isn’t a nice thing to-do. It isn’t some luxury that we get to when we have time on our hands to spend. This is a core imperative for every human being in every society. If we do not continue the campaign for women’s rights and opportunities, the world we want to live, the country we all love and cherish, will not be what it should be.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

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

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

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