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The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia - that type of mentality - that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

— Amanda Lindhout

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

— John Edward Christopher Hill

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

— Pythagoras

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

— Dave Sim

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

— Hawa Abdi

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to scream about their rights. But when you scream, nobody listens to you. Real authority comes when you no longer need to scream - and that's something we women still need to learn.

— Monica Bellucci

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.

— Alice Paul

✗Opposing Perspectives

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

— Lynsey Addario