Quotes About Empowerment

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we worked to live gloriously.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

Be black, shine, aim high.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Your history does not need to define your destiny.

When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Stand up and walk out of your history

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Where the women go, the culture goes.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.