Quotes About Empowerment

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

It's social progress to just be you.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.

High school and college students can show shelter residents how to fill out the forms to get their Social Security cards, driver's licenses, and other documents needed for education and employment.

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

Sometimes you have to invest in people to get the best out of them. To me, that is socialism. That is why I'm a Labour member rather than a Conservative.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing.

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

India's future has to be built on the foundation of social protection of the economically and socially handicapped sections.

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

I want to build businesses that are high quality, socially conscious, and for the people.

When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist.

I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

I do wish, when I was younger, that I knew that I was gay. It would have made things a lot clearer for me. Really. Looking back on it, it was so obvious, but it never really dawned on me. Socially, I felt like I didn't know how to be and who to be. If I had known back then, it would have given me more self-confidence.

I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids.

People just want to live their best lives. They want to be socially free, physically safe, and financially secure.