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Quotes About Empowerment

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
~ Melody Beattie
We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.
~ Liya Kebede
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
~ Kevin O'Leary
Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.
~ Melissa Harris-Perry
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
~ Marty Meehan
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
~ Tory Burch
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real management is developing people through work.
~ Agha Hasan Abedi
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees
~ Ricardo Semler
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
~ Buchi Emecheta
30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
~ Jack Ma
Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
~ William Osler
You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.
~ Jenifer Lewis
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Rise up, you suckers, and go out and do the work of Jesus!
~ Tony Campolo
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
~ Meryl Streep
I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
~ Martin Luther
Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
~ Olivia Wilde
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.
~ Maria Montessori