Quotes About Empowerment

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.

no man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.46 Laissez-faire

The great dream of Judaism is not to raise priests, but a people of priests; to consecrate all men, not only some men.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Teach the children so it won't be necessary to teach the adults.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

When you have succeeded in dehumanizing the Negro, when you have put him down, are you quite sure that the demon you have roused will not turn and rend you

If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

In leaving the people's business in their hands, we cannot be wrong.

Enquanto não se puser fim à funesta ideia da desigualdade das raças e da seleção entre diferentes espécies humanas, a luta dos povos de origem africana por aquilo que poderíamos chamar de "igualdade das partes" — e, portanto, dos direitos e das responsabilidades —, continuará a ser uma luta legítima.

A sense of rights can be contagious

Dr. Sheppard has not only stood before kings, but he has also stood against them. In pursuit of his mission of serving his race in its native land, this son of a slave . . . has dared to withstand all the power of Leopold.

At Christabel's instigation, women infiltrated all-male meetings of the ruling Liberal Party: they hid underneath the speakers' platform, rappelled down from skylights, climbed through windows, always shouting "Votes for women!

In his Hymn to the Love of the Motherland, written after the first partition of Poland, Bishop Ignacy Krasicki, a Voltairian and no friend of the confederates, extolled the 'delights' of suffering and dying in the cause. Paoli

Can I give her a choice about when to do something, rather than insisting upon "right now." ("Do you want to take your bath before your TV show or right after?")