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Quotes About Empowerment

Since my return to America my Master, has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom.
~ Phillis Wheatley
There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.
~ Camila Cabello
We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.
~ Ella Baker
Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
~ Erik Erikson
We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.
~ Unknown
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
~ Aristotle
Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.
~ Angela Merkel
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
~ Al Pacino
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
~ Edmund Randolph
The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.
~ Russell Means
The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters.
~ Emiliano Zapata
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
~ Harvey Milk
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty
~ Amartya Sen
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
~ Sally Kirkland
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
~ Peter Benenson
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
~ Stokely Carmichael
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
~ Toni Morrison
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.
~ John F. Kennedy
I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.
~ Janet Frame