Women'S Rights Movement Quotes

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

— Constance Baker Motley

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics.…

— Clara Zetkin

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its…

— Susan Jacoby

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many…

— Manisha Sinha

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement,…

— Steven Van Zandt

“Philanthropists and donors traditionally haven't been sufficiently interested in women's rights abroad, giving money instead to higher brow causes such as the…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the women's rights movement and feminism. But I…

— Cheryl Benard quoting Lorrie

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were…

— George Clooney

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights…

— Tom Morello

It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights…

— Asra Nomani

“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history…

— Diane Chamberlain

“This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now…

— Diane Chamberlain