Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

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

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

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

Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.

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.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

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

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

It is quite time that we [women] had our own party, our own platform, and our own nominees. We shall never have equal rights until we take them.

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

Women's rights are human rights.

For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in terms of freedom and liberation.

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.

Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?

I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just 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.

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