Quotes About Empowerment

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Poverty is unnecessary.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Wherever we walk we will make Wherever we protest we will go planting Make poems seed grass feed a child growing build a house Whatever we stand against We will stand feeding and seeding Wherever I walk I will make

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

There can be no separation of the revolutionary process from the revolutionary goal. A society based on self-administration must be achieved by means of self-administration.

The Kazakh woman is a hot goddess, she is the sexiest notes of desire.

You may remain a virgin for life, but you will be a rich virgin.

Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Wash: I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

Credentials and classrooms are useless unless they lead us toward consciously applying knowledge to improve the quality of our community.

Accepting reality is what matters. Creating a new reality is what will move you forward in life. Define yourself and give meaning to your life.

Africa has been brought back to its knees and this generation can't take it any longer.

Africa must unite, in the name of the continent.

Apart from liberty, I believe that equality is the tune of our generation.

Be an eagle instead of flocking like pigeons. Self-discovery will always be the highest type of knowledge in one's life.

Before reaching the universe, you must first conquer the world; establish effective communication with your peers.

Begin by mastering your emotions, then your mind.