Quotes about Empowerment
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
— Edith Wharton
Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
— Ben Carson
You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
— Desmond Tutu
Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.
— Tarana Burke
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
— Marianne Williamson
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
— Shirley Chisholm
I think dad would be very proud of young people standing up to promote truth, justice and equality.
— Martin Luther King III
Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.
— Bob Marley
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
— Malcolm X
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
— Charles Dickens
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
— Charles Hodge