Quotes about Freedom of Dress

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

This was another historical reality that shocked traditionalists. There was nothing in the Koran or Islamic scripture requiring women to wear veils and burkas. Many Muslims and non-Muslims, to this day, do not realize that.

Laurence Rossignol

The burkini is not some new line of swimwear. It is the search version of the burqa and it has the same logic: hide women’s bodies in order to better to control them.

At the time she made this statement, she was the French Minister of Families, Infants and Women;s Rights. France was in the midst of a political and legal argument over the right of communities to ban women at the beaches to wear burkina’s. These were garments that covered the woman’s body completely that some French Muslim leaders claimed was the only mortal way a Muslim woman could go to a beach. Secularists divided into two groups. Those who argued that the right of dress or undress for a French woman was inviolable by the state. The otters groups argued that the burkini was clear method of control of women by men which is so contrary to French rights and mores, that the community should be allowed to be practiced. The Minister was with the latter group.

Malala Yousafzai

I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

Yuna

I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

Mustafa Akyol

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

Marine Le Pen

The problem is that it’s not a bathing suit, It’s an islamist uniform. It’s one of the ways in which Islamic fundamentalism flexes its muscles.

She was referring ti burkinis—Muslim beachwear that voce red all of a woman’s body and hair. She was one of the supporters of a ban on the wearing of burins on French breaches.

David Kaye

Where States impose unlawful censorship through filtering and other technologies, the use of encryption and anonymity may empower individuals to circumvent barriers and access information and ideas without the intrusion of authorities. Journalists, researchers, lawyers and civil society rely on encryption and anonymity to shield themselves (and their sources, clients and partners) from surveillance and harassment. The ability to search the web, develop ideas and communicate securely may be the only way in which many can explore basic aspects of identity, such as one’s gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin or sexuality.

Mohsin Hamid

The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.

Daphne Guinness

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

Freedom of Dress Quotes