Charlotte Bunch Quotes

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

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

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

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

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

I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"

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.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time.

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

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.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.