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Quotes About Empowerment

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live
~ Julius Nyerere
Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.
~ Annie Oakley
I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
~ KRS-One
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
~ Miles Davis
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
~ Maria Montessori
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
~ Robin Morgan
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
~ Charlie Munger
Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.
~ Ray Mears
It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.
~ Antanas Mockus
Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.
~ William H. Gray III
He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
~ George Orwell
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge
~ Kofi Annan
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
~ Alvin Toffler
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
~ Samuel Adams
Freedom is knowing who you really are.
~ Linda Thomson
Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.
~ Henry Cloud
Somos las civilizadoras, no te cabe duda
~ Javier Marías
We must demand excellence of ourselves and agitate and advocate justice from the larger society.
~ Jawanza Kunjufu
That's why history is so important, because if our children had been taught correctly, they would have a burning spirit for freedom, liberation, and self-actualization.
~ Jawanza Kunjufu