Quotes About Empowerment

You stay alive in the practice of leadership by reducing the extent to which you become the target of people's frustrations. The best way to stay out of range is to think constantly about giving the work back to the people who need to take responsibility. Place the work within and between the factions who are faced with the challenge, and tailor your interventions so they are unambiguous and have a context.

Socrates always insisted that any of us could do what he did if we were willing to give full expression to our innate capacity to ask questions, learn from everyone, challenge our own beliefs, and stand up for what is right.

Hunger and thirst for righteousness.

Regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, never-Trumper, or apolitical, surely we can unite on that front and agree that the objectification and sexualization of girls and women is never acceptable on any level.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Sir, married or unmarried, all women bleed.

And when all feels hopeless, remember that you are in charge of what goes into your body, you don't answer to anyone, and you are allowed to eat anything you want. Often just knowing we can eat whatever we want is enough to keep us from eating whatever we want. We're so rebellious.

Now that you're a Skinny Bitch, don't turn into a skinny bitch. We conceived of the title, Skinny Bitch, to get attention and sell books.... But we are not bitches, and we have no desire to promote bitchiness. There is nothing uglier than a pretty woman who's nasty. If you look great, you should feel good about yourself and be happy.

Never feel like or say you are "giving up" your favorite foods. Those words have a negative connotation, like you are sacrificing something. You're not "giving up" anything. You are simply empowered now and able to make educated, controlled choices about what you will and won't put into your body, your temple.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Those who do not move, do not feel their chains.

Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir llamaba mujeres pelota a aquellas que, tras triunfar con grandes dificultades en la sociedad machista, se prestaban a ser utilizadas por esa misma sociedad para reforzar la discriminación; y así, su imagen era rebotada contra las demás mujeres con el siguiente mensaje: «¿Veis? Ella ha triunfado porque vale; si vosotras no lo conseguís no es por impedimentos sexistas, sino porque no valéis lo suficiente.»

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also free.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

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