Quotes About Empowerment

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

If you don't allow freedom, then you can't have freedom.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

Freedom is a public library.

The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.