Damon Dash Quotes

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

Women shall be treated with all the regard due to their sex and shall in all cases benefit by treatment as favourable as that granted to men

… in an age when human rights are preached loudly from the rooftops, women had to be accepted as equals and allowed to think and act in their own interests and by their own efforts.

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

I always respect a woman.

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

I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.

Ever since the beginning of Soviet rule, equal rights for women have been an object of interest not only for women, but for men as well – young men, Red Army men.

Whoever has a daughter, and does not bury her alive, or scold her, or prefer his male children to her, may God bring him into paradise

You don't run a feminist agenda and achieve political power.

I never war against females, and it is only the base and cowardly that do.

This is the first generation where, to any extent, men and women are working together as equals.