Quotes About Empowerment

Freedom is never given, it is won.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.