Quotes About Empowerment

am I inferior simply because I am not English born? Am I to be a slave because I am an Indian?

The strategy of providing quality while refusing equality was vulnerable.

Ambedkar said he had been 'surprised, immensely surprised' to find 'so much in common' between Gandhi and himself. 'If you devoted yourself entirely to the welfare of the Depressed Classes', Ambedkar said to Gandhi, 'you would become our hero'.

Muslim preponderance in the police and the army' would be hit.

Tilak had complained that Gandhi was asking too much of the Indian people. He was proved right. Non-violence, not harming the hated British, embracing jails, Hindu-Muslim unity, giving up titles, contributing money, the abolition of untouchability—each item on the long list was desirable, but also costly.

Every Indian election in the eighty-two years since the pact— whether nationwide or in a state, town or village—has been conducted on the basis of that pact, with reserved seats for Dalits but without a separate electorate.

You are the writer of your own life.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Tools are totems, an important weapon in the fight against fear.

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

For God does not command the impossible, but by commanding he instructs you both to do what you can and to pray for what you cannot, and he gives you his aid to enable you.333

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.