Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Treating women like a burden to the men is one of the reasons for poverty.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Denying the rights of women and girls is not only wrong in itself; it has a serious social and economic impact that holds us all back.

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

It is frustrating that religion in general includes components that treat women as a support system for a man rather than a leader or equal player in the relationship.

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.

Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

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.

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.

As Indians, we take great pride in the fact that we are a progressive nation. We are proud of our democracy, our secular values as well as our entrepreneurial spirit. We are appalled by the harsh laws that govern women's lives in Taliban-dominated lands. Yet we turn a blind eye to the injustices that our own society continues to heap upon women.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

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

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.