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Quotes About Empowerment

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
~ Richard Cobden
I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.
~ Erin Brockovich
I've never needed government to hold my hand.
~ Aaron Lewis
Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
~ Angelique Kidjo
Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.
~ Cindy Blackstock
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
~ Ronald Reagan
It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.
~ Richard Dreyfuss
Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?
~ John Taylor Gatto
I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system
~ Imran Khan
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
~ Malcolm X
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
~ Benazir Bhutto
Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.
~ Henry Ford
We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women
~ Sima Samar
I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
~ Jesse Ventura
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
~ Rosamond Lehmann
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
~ Charlotte Bunch
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Women have no government.
~ Victoria Woodhull
And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
~ Ed Miliband
The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.
~ Bill Drayton
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
~ Margaret Mead
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.
~ Thomas Jefferson