As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance. As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow.

To awaken the people, it is the women who must first be awakened. Once she is on the move, the family moves, the village moves, the nation moves.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!