Chen Guangcheng Quotes

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

Girls have been suppressed for long. Crimes against women are on the rise because women have the courage to come out in the open and fight the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

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

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.