Quotes About Empowerment

I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

We all have a responsibility to create a just society

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

I want a society free of human trafficking

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.