Quotes About Empowerment

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

I want to work for the people of Bengal.

I want to do things for the people of this country.

I have to share my story. Not for me, but for the people who might go through the same thing and for juveniles who have gotten in trouble.

The People's Party, I am working for the people and we want to put the power back in people.

We need to restore our democracy to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

All the issues the Shiv Sena took up were for the people.

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.

One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many.

I believe in empowering people rather than advising them and forcing them in a direction which I feel is right.

It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

We like to be kind of at the forefront for how all football federations should treat their female athletes.

I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.

The foreign policy community in Washington has been arguing that America must put our values at the head of our foreign policy once again - and I couldn't agree more, so let's start by leading on women.

Being a foreigner bad guy doesn't have to be my destiny, and I can be much more than that.

I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.

First and foremost, it's important to love yourself.

My path has been, I think, a path a lot of women can foresee themselves taking.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.