Pedro Sanchez Quotes

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

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

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

Women must enjoy equal rights with men. The remaining shackles that hamper their freedom must be removed so that they can participate constructively and profoundly in shaping the life of the country.

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

I support women. I think we should be treated equal, all of that stuff.

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.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

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

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

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

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.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

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.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

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

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

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

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

We [women] seek equality. We don't seek sameness.