Harriet Jacobs Quotes

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Quebec women are treated like sows.

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

Sometimes I feel that my message has not been clearly heard. But that is not my fault because I feel like too much is going on in terms of women being victims.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.