Quotes About Empowerment

All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.

What we're looking for in a president, most importantly, is leadership. A person that will actually stand up and fight for the middle class.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

I'm a real freedom fighter. I'm not a pretend freedom fighter. I stand up for other actresses, other people.

I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.

The folks in this counrty need somebody that will stand up for them.

I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

We can't afford to compromise on anything we have fought for - abortion is legal in our country, and I will do everything in my power to stand up for the rights of women and all people to choose when and how they build a family.

I stand up for all rights.

As sportspeople, we have a power we don't even know. If we get together and talk, things change. If we stand up, people stand up with us.

You have to stand up super-straight in those corsets and pull your shoulders back.

As a woman, when you look up to a man, you want to feel protected. We do need a lot more respect and men who will stand up when they need to. That needs to be the new normal.

If I can encourage people to stand up and take space and make noise, then I'm very happy to do so.

I will always stand up to protect fair access to the ballot box.

I'm white. I have privileges as a parent that many others don't. Of not only teaching but expecting my daughter to stand up for herself because I have no fear that harm will come to her when she does. I am reassured by her teachers that her willfulness will do her good as she gets older.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

There are women who can play at my standard, if not better, and they can beat men, too, so it would be nice to see them do it as well.

There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.

How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualification in many fields and increased the feeling of responsibility in all!

We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

It's so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it.