Quotes About Empowerment

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

A people's art is the genesis of their freedom.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.