Quotes About Empowerment

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

I believe that it is appropriate for young people in society to revisit Malcolm's journey and his role in history.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.