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Quotes from Speech at Great Cleveland International Women's Year Conference (excerpts) — Betty Ford

1918–2011 United States

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As the barriers against freedom for Americans because of race or religion have fallen, the freedom of all has expanded. The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom of women.

Speech at Great Cleveland International Women's Year Conference (excerpts) (1975)

The long road to equality rests on achievement of women and men in altering how women are treated in every area of everyday life.

Speech at Great Cleveland International Women's Year Conference (excerpts) (1975)

Freedom for women to be what they want to be will help complete the circle of freedom America has been striving for 200 years.

Speech at Great Cleveland International Women's Year Conference (excerpts) (1975)

We have come a long way, but we have a long way to go, and part of that distance is in our very own mind.

Speech at Great Cleveland International Women's Year Conference (excerpts) (1975)

Change, by its very nature, is threatening but it is also often productive. And the fight of women to become more productive, accepted human beings is important to all people of either sex and nationality.

Speech at Great Cleveland International Women's Year Conference (excerpts) (1975)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Betty Ford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.