Quotes About Empowerment

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done...

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]