Quotes About Empowerment

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

Westerners are fond of the saying 'Life isn't fair.' Then, they end in snide triumphant: 'So get used to it!' What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child's budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, 'Life isn't fair,' and her response will be: 'Then make it fair!

Westerners are fond of the saying 'Life isn't fair.' Then, they end in snide triumph: 'So get used to it!' What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child's budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, 'Life isn't fair,' and her response will be: 'Then make it fair!

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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet?

The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.