Quotes About Empowerment

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Democracy is the best revenge.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Being free is a state of mind.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.