Quotes About Empowerment

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

Young people today have lots of experience … interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.

Be yourself and I promise people will enjoy it, and if they don't, forget them.

Freedom thrives on the precipice of bondage. Believe in your strength.

Sometimes you just have to start being the main character.

Fear is something I don't think you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, then you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along doing what has to be done.

Thirty-eight U.S. military women who died were members of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, the WAFS, and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the WASPs, who flew military aircraft on noncombat missions to keep male pilots fresh and available for battle.

Eventually, more than 150,000 women served as WACs during World War II, making them the first women other than nurses to join the U.S. Army.

JoAnne told Lyz: "Make him . . . make him brave." She repeated the phrase, almost like a benediction: "Make him brave.

As a child of immigrant parents, as a woman of color in a white society and as a woman in a patriarchal society, what is personal to me IS political.

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects, or let them speak freely and not listen to them with serious intent... To finally recognize our own invisibility is to finally be on the path toward visibility. Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

When Communism has been realized, everyone will be a novelist.

Dü?üncelerini her zaman gö?e sal, denize dald?r, olmad? da?a ç?kar ama ne olursa olsun s?kma kendini.

He felt free -- fear is all that stands in the way of freedom

C'è sempre un prezzo da pagare quando si amano gli altri, ma amare se stessi non costa niente. Posso amarmi come mi pare e piace. Sono padrone di me stesso e prendo le mie decisioni.

La participación estudiantil, para mí, es el motor de la transformación y de la democratización de la universidad.

Apabila kamu berpelajaran kamu akan menjadi kaya. Kamu boleh menolong diri sendiri dan orang lain dan paling penting, dengan pelajaran, kamu akan lebih mengenali dan memahami dunia.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.