Quotes About Empowerment

Muito do que nos legaram pode ser re-programado: somos fruto mas não escravos, o olhar primordial que nos saudou não é necessariamente uma sentença de morte.

God is glorified not by calling strong women but by giving His strength to weak women.

It is impossible to establish a real dialogue with someone who does not consider you an equal (Fifty Shades of Feminism)

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.

Sempre fomos o que os homens disseram que nós éramos. Agora somos nós que vamos dizer o que somos.

The mother who tries to keep her child away from all temptation simply prepares the boy for a terrible fall when he gets old enough to leave the home. It is not by taking away the bonds, it is by giving strength to the man that he may break the bonds, that he is redeemed. Every man is like a Samson bound by his enemies, and he must acquire the strength within himself to break them.

This is what Jesus Christ came to do. Not to show how we can escape hell and get into heaven, but to show how we can escape from ourselves and become other selves; to show how we may cease to be what we are and become what we desire to be. He came that he might teach us and empower us to be the men we want to be, the men we ought to be.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

You got a power source

Lynda Madden Dahl

A man without a vote is man without protection.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter—and to write in the books of law.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Freedom is not enough.

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

As long as you are black, and you're gonna be black till the day you die, no one's gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you'll make it. Just pretend you're a goddamn piece of furniture. [Said to his chauffeur, Robert Parker, when Parker said he'd prefer to be referred to by his name rather than "boy," "nigger" or "chief."]

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life

Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life.

You have a contribution to make and unique gifts to offer. It's time to stop listening to the voices that tells you that you're not good enough, won't make it, or don't have anything to offer.