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Quotes About Empowerment

Good things can be forged from bone-deep fury.
~ Lisa Gardner
No pimp wants the hired help to achieve financial independence.
~ Lisa Gardner
No. I joined the FBI so I could be heavily armed, and also help others.
~ Lisa Gardner
We are both women who understand there's no point to the coulda, woulda, shouldas of life.
~ Lisa Gardner
You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
~ Angelique Kidjo
Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
~ Robin Williams
I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.
~ Mae West
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
~ Naomi Wolf
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
~ Helen Keller
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
~ Susan Orlean
We, as a society, we have PhDs in victimizing a victim.
~ Sunitha Krishnan
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
~ Octavia Butler
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
~ William Ellery Channing
Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.
~ Mal Fletcher
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
~ Geoff Mulgan
Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.
~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw
If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.
~ Shelby Steele
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
~ Naomi Wolf
After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.
~ Rachel Maddow
Free markets are the real people's revolution.
~ Jeffrey Tucker