"Members of militias sometimes react aggressively. I understand their defensive position. We need to remember that they too are traumatized. Just like ourselves"

"Allowing armed militia’s to participate politically is giving them an opportunity to stop using violence."

"I want them to speak about themselves, not as soldiers, but as young human beings. You can’t measure that kind of action, I don’t know how successful that is"

"Life does continue. We watch a movie and turn up the volume to drown out the sounds of the blasts outside."

"Yes, I survived that"

"I will still be an activist when my hair has turned completely white"

"I believe in solution-driven projects. I believe in grassroots projects, I believe in people taking action. If you don't know anything about it there is internet today, you can find a community of people who are interested in the same topics"

"Anybody can do something, anybody can take action. And every action is important"

"I say no to your assumptions, no to your judgements, no to war, no to violence. That’s what I stand for."

"For me, use your voice. If you have a talent, you have a gift, you have a purpose and a ‘why’ - use it"

"It's a vehicle to share messages, it's a vehicle for change"

"To free myself from my father, who was a dominant and abusive patriarch"

"Keep going women and girls.Stand up for yourself.You have earned the right to own and to work,the right to be independent and make your own"

"They all fall. We do have a common land, a common sky. There is our connection, our common experience. Only that is constant. Everything else is changeable. So please, Europe, resist fear"

"You have the right to Education and the right to equality."

"We are challenging their ideas of war. I ask them ‘What are you going to do after the war? Even if by then you are 30, 40, 50, 60?"

"Women and girls this is the time to seize your power"

"Growing up in the Sahel, I witnessed the land degradation caused by a changing climate, and saw how women and girls were disproportionately suffering the consequences"

"I quickly realized you cannot dissociate women and girls’ rights from climate change activism"

"Art—be it music, films or paintings—is a powerful tool to unite people and create global movements"

"I have used my music to support initiatives such as the Great Green Wall, and it has proved very effective"

"The purpose of a name is to designate an individual, and to distinguish that individual from others. I received my law degree and my certificate to practice as Mary Lou Baker. … It might even be considered unsportsmanlike for me to use the name of my husband upon the ballot and thereby borrow from the goodwill established by the name of Capt. Searle H. Matthews."

"My wife, Mary Lou Baker is an excellent housewife, an able lawyer and legislator. She possesses great beauty, poise, charm and friendliness."

"If you’re a rape survivor, pregnant as a result of that assault, you must pay for your own emergency medical care – something that is out of reach for most victims."

"It’s us who carry the pregnancy to term, us alone! We have to decide whether we want to get pregnant or not!"

"If you’re a woman, you may be denied contraception, simply because you don’t have your husband’s permission. And if you do manage to get contraception, you may be forced to use it in secret for fear of being accused of adultery by your partner or in-laws – just because you want to prevent an unwanted pregnancy."

"she led protests against taxation and price control, issues she strongly believed would negatively impact the livelihood of women."

"I am she who is called Pelewura…. . I will not starve in the country I was born in."

"Alimotu initiated that market women reduce the prices of goods sold in the markets to support the striking workers"

"She also strongly protested a market price control plan, named the Pullen scheme popularly after a British officer, Captain A.P. Pullen, who initiated and directed it"

"She rose to more prominence in 1910 when she became a titled chief by the order and conferment of the Oba of Lagos, Eshugbayi Eleko"

"The couple later moved to Kingsville, Texas, where Adair helped to spearhead a women’s movement that included fighting against illegal gambling and organizing a petition drive for women’s suffrage."

"The white women were going to vote."

"My body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honor."

"Christia Adair fought for the rights of both women and African Americans. As a member of the NAACP, she worked to desegregate buses, dressing rooms, libraries, and hospitals."

"Nothing they could do would be worse than what already happens here to women, the way women are forced to live every day. Ever since we are small they tell us to be calm, to behave well, to dress a certain way, everything to find a husband. We must also study to be able to marry, because young guys today want a woman who works."

"Have reached the height of self-determination: we no longer obey any authority, neither family nor religious. We know what we want and we make our own decisions."

"I’m afraid for my life and the lives of my family."

"We have seen that more proactive actions from state actors happen when the country’s leader steps up and declares action against gender-based violence."

"Addressing gender-based violence should be the rule and not the exception."

"[W]e should focus not only on ending all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls in Kenya, but on being proactive about making the country a more just society for all."

"An active member of the Barbados Women's Alliance, she also advocated for amendments to the Bastardy Act, equal opportunities in girls' education, and adequate training in family planning."

"She is remembered as a pioneer and "trailblazer" in the struggle for women's rights in the country."

"She also was vocal about the need to provide teaching on African heritage."

"I am a coloured woman and proud of it."

"They’re denying a lot of the pain that women and girls are going through, and just calling it Western influence."