Quotes About Empowerment

Why do people tell girls all this? You ask them to achieve things, but when they do, you can't handle it.

Why do we need our men to praise and validate us in order for us to feel accomplished?

They are not saviours, and it is unfair to expect them to be. It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

The upper-caste, upper-class Hindus have to let go of their bigotry and prejudice. The oppressed have to let go of their justified but expensive urge for revenge and retribution. All over the world, the oppressed have only risen through self-empowerment—look at the Jews and the Parsis.

Never, ever make that compromise. Love yourself first, and then others. There

everyone has a right to prosper and succeed through hard work, innovation and excellence. We

It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

What's the point of getting people free only to put restrictions on them?

A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished, no matter how brave its warriors or how strong their weapons.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.

There is no success but your own success.

Teaching creates all other professions.

That teacher is most successful who makes herself progressively unnecessary to her pupils because she develops in them the power to do without her.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

It's your body. Tell it what to do.

William Ralston Balch, 1883

Pink is not just a color. It's an attitude.

People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That's not our America. Our United States of America is not about us versus them. It's about We the people!

We the people will not be silenced. We the people will not be bullied. We the people will not surrender.

The right to vote has and always will remain the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. We must, each and every one of us, continue to protect this sacred right and ensure everyone is afforded the opportunity to vote.

Voting is people power.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can get rid of him on weekends.