Ginny Brown-Waite Quotes

The foreign policy community in Washington has been arguing that America must put our values at the head of our foreign policy once again - and I couldn't agree more, so let's start by leading on women.

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.

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

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

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

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

We are not crusading for the rights of the women of New England or of old England but of the world.

In numbers there is strength, and we in America must help the women of the world.

We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

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?

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

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

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Equality for women is progress for all.

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

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.