Quotes About Empowerment

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

Mental health isn't all of me, but it's a massive part of my journey and a massive part of my whole being.

I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

I don't want to discuss my breasts with the whole world!

At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for 'Grey's Anatomy.' That's the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.

JACL has always been at the very forefront of making sure citizens' civil rights remain intact. They fight wholeheartedly against discrimination, prejudice and racial bias and they always provide a calm voice during turbulent times.

Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.

I wholeheartedly believe that we can't organize just as women. There has to be specific messaging and an issue prioritization based on identity groups. Because when you ask a black woman what her top priority issues are versus a white woman versus a Muslim woman versus an undocumented woman, you're going to get... different answers.

Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

I'm curvy and wholesome.

I'm discovering, and I think other mums are discovering too, that when you become a mum, you don't have to change into this frumpy, wholesome role model who is perfect and loses all of your identity. You can still have the same personality you've always had.

So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show her ankles to to get that job?