Quotes About Empowerment

In the sentence "She's no longer suffering," to what, to whom does "she" refer? What does that present tense mean?

Tell my mother I stopped feeling frightened once I told myself they couldn't inflict half as much pain on me as she suffered when she gave birth to me.

Fisher Ames observed of Hamilton that the common people don't want leaders "whom they see elevated by nature and education so far above their heads.

In the words of Frederick Douglass, "That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made him a citizen.

Frederick Douglass paired Grant with Lincoln as the two people who had done most to secure African American advances:

It was a lesson in self-reliance.

Instead of making isolated gifts, Rockefeller wanted to finance institutions whose research would have a pervasive influence.

I do not know of any firm to suggest at the moment, but why not run them ourselves?

He gravitated toward women who were free and independent, sassy and high-spirited.

As he abandoned his fearful attitude toward the press, he loosened up, as if liberated by the change.

To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received one, regardless of whether their papers were in order.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.

The incredible women around the world who do stand up for justice can in fact transform the planet.

I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.

Older women Ã¢â'¬Â¦ are worth it.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. He thought JFK had said it. I thought it was actually Friedrich Nietzsche, and he said destroy, not kill. What doesn't destroy us makes us stronger.

because we can handle this stuff better than men, can't we?

It's something they teach you in the army. The only thing under your direct control is how hard you work. In other words, if you really, really buckle down today, and you get the intelligence, the planning, and the execution each a hundred percent exactly correct, then you are bound to prevail." "Sounds empowering." "It's the army. What they really mean is, if you fail today, it's completely your own fault.

Not woman's work?

Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?' Back

I said, "I don't need no education.

My people don't need any encouraging. They don't need much leading. They need guidance, and they need discipline, but don't let that fool you. I'm not coercing anybody. Don't make the mistake of underestimating their will. Don't ignore their desire for a change for the better.