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Quotes About Empowerment

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.
~ Paul Kagame
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
~ Coco Chanel
A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.
~ Coco Chanel
Freedom and independence form my character.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
~ Malcolm X
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.
~ Maria Montessori
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
~ Christina, Queen of Sweden
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self.
~ Maria Montessori
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
~ John D. Rockefeller
It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.
~ Germaine Greer
The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence
~ Swami Vivekananda
No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.
~ Maria Montessori
Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.
~ Maria Montessori
Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.
~ Peter Senge
Injustice in the end produces independence.
~ Voltaire
You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.
~ Mike Tyson
What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
~ Anita Desai
Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.
~ Saadi
It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.
~ Jim Rohn
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.
~ Adrian Bell
No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.
~ Maria Montessori