Quotes About Empowerment

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.