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Quotes About Empowerment

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people
~ Ani DiFranco
The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
~ Annie Lennox
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.
~ Aristotle
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
~ Audre Lorde
We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.
~ Barack Obama
Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
~ Barack Obama
It's a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
~ Bernie Mac
We JAH people can make it work.
~ Bob Marley
The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
~ Buck Owens
I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
~ Carl Lewis
Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.
~ D. Patrick Miller
Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.
~ Denzel Washington
Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.
~ Dolly Parton
I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.
~ Edna Ferber
Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.
~ Emily Saliers
If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.
~ Erin Kelly
Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.
~ Francis Chan
Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe
~ Frantz Fanon
I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
~ Frederick Reines
The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.
~ Guy Finley
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
~ Harriet Martineau