Rights Quote by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Download Open image ““The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.”” — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Rights Women
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“[T]he status of women in a society is a pretty reliable index of the degree of civilization of that society.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
“The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it. Women all around the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Despite all the progress that we have made in the world, gender equality is still not pervasive in all parts of our society.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“I still believe that [...] advancing the rights and opportunities of women and girls is the unfinished business of the twenty-first century.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.” — Jennifer Ott Copy Share Image
What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name! — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“There was a time when slavery was good. It did its work, and when it finished creating capital it withered and died a natural… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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