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Quotes About Empowerment

When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people.
~ Om Malik
I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.
~ Sonia Rykiel
Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
~ Tammy Bruce
When I was coming up, we didn't have the movement of Black Girl Magic or Black Girls Rock, but my parents made it their business to make sure I saw positive images of myself and celebrated images of black women.
~ Naturi Naughton
We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
~ Patricia Ireland
I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
~ bell hooks
Movements live on a day-to-day basis.
~ Arvind Kejriwal
I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.
~ Eve Ensler
We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new economy and a new democracy that don't force them to choose between making a living and being a part of a healthy democracy.
~ Alicia Garza
Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.
~ Opal Tometi
Movements like Time's Up and #MeToo are putting the problems out there and creating conversations about the issues, and that's really how the healing process starts.
~ Nadine Labaki
Labour grew out of popular movements of mutualism and self-help.
~ Liz Kendall
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
~ Michael Novak
I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.
~ Don Cooper
I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do.
~ Josh Homme
We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.
~ Maxine Waters
That's all I've ever wanted to do is to feel like what you're doing moves someone, and that ultimately, maybe they can make a different choice in their life that may be better, right?
~ David Harbour
I've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.
~ Tessa Blanchard
Just having the support from the male players is important as the women's game moves forward.
~ Isa Guha
I make moves on my terms.
~ Israel Adesanya
I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.
~ Aaron Sorkin
I'm always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always.
~ Johnny Depp
'Rocky Horror' is not a movie - it's a movement. It is a made by the fans, and it is what it is because of what the fans have done.
~ Ryan McCartan
I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
~ Callie Khouri