To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about…

— Alice Paul

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...

— Martin Luther King, Jr

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

— Jane Austen

The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all…

— Bella Abzug

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

— Malala Yousafzai

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”

— Cheris Kramarae

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak…

— Hillary Clinton

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

— Susan B. Anthony

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

— Mahnaz Afkhami

Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

— Kofi Annan

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be…

— Susan B. Anthony

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

— Victoria Woodhull

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

— Kofi Annan