Linda Sarsour Quotes

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

You have to be committed to expand rights and opportunities for all women.

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.

As the father of two daughters, the ongoing struggle for women's equality is very personal for me. That's why it has been an honor during my time in Congress to support women's rights by advocating for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to paid maternity leave and quality child care.

There's nothing more mainstream than equal pay for equal work. I mean, it's completely obvious that's what feminism should be for, and for women's right to choose what happens to their own bodies.

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

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.

We need to respect choices that women make.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

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.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

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

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

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

I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.