Quotes About Empowerment

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

For the American economy, for any economy to grow, to truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half our population. We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection, and we've got to do it now. We cannot wait for them to learn how to be brave like I did when I was 33 years old.

We cannot fight just as Dalits. I understand for centuries people have fought each other. It is not easy to bring them together. But we have done this in U.P.

We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

My view is that we cannot be ruled by fear. When we do that, we are not making ourselves see. We are not thinking things through. We are not looking at what works.

We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.

Every state aspiring to be part of the free world, able to decide its own destiny, deserves its chance. They may, in a not too distant future, contribute to all of us in ways we cannot imagine today.

We cannot let ourselves be infantalized. We cannot let ourselves be stereotyped.

At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us.

If the countries of Europe and of North America can be almost uniformly prosperous, we don't see why we cannot be allowed to be a little prosperous.

The girls who come into Tamil cinema today are educated and from well-to-do families. Unlike the actresses of my generation, they do not need cinema for survival. We cannot write a small role - dead cast, as I call it - and expect them to be excited.

We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.

We live in a world where adolescents and young people, especially from key populations, are still left behind. We cannot fail to address their needs.

There are patches in the GRC that are actually full of low-income people... and we cannot leave them behind in our pursuit of economic development and success.

Black lives do matter. We cannot be afraid to say it, so I'll say it again: Black lives do matter.

We cannot continue leaving teachers behind but expecting them to lead the way for our children.

Working in the shop has taught me how utterly ridiculous the female fear of knees is. It's a bloody knee. It's bone. We can't control our knees, our knees are not our fault. We cannot let this continue, we have to abandon this ridiculous new obsession and set the knee free.