Clara Zetkin

“When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.”

“The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.”

“The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.”

“Fascism is the punishment of the proletariat for failing to carry on the revolution begun in Russia.”

“What is the goal of our struggle? Is it the bourgeois women's rights movement... No, this is not our goal. The goal of our struggle is to create a socialist society.”

“We must not be content to wait and see what will happen. We must act now, and we must act together.”

“For the proletarian woman, it is not a question of 'free love,'... but a question of her own economic independence.”

“The struggle for the emancipation of women is a class struggle.”

“Let us not forget that the capitalist state is the organ of the ruling class.”

“The franchise, the right to vote, is not a favor that is granted to us; it is a right that we must conquer.”

“All of us, and millions of toiling women with us, are filled with the deepest and most ardent gratitude for what the Russian Revolution has given to us women.”

“The proletarian woman needs political rights not because she wants to compete with the man, but because she wants to fight together with him for the liberation of the whole of humanity.”