Empowerment Quotes - Page 16

• A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Mothers Day

  "Woman and the New Race" by Margaret Sanger, New York: Brentanos Publishers, (Chapter 8), 1922.

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• Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Writing, Names, Community

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• You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.

  Tim Ferriss

  School, Doors, Names

  "The Karmic Capitalist: Should I Wait Until I’m Rich to Give Back?" by Tim Ferriss, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2007.

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• Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Self, Essence

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.16, New World Library

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• Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?

  Tim Ferriss

  Teacher, Kings, Book

  "The Karmic Capitalist: Should I Wait Until I’m Rich to Give Back?" by Tim Ferriss, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2007.

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• What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Mother, Differences, What If

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• In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own wife. And vise versa. That'll be normal in the New World - different from the Old World, where everyone except me is to blame for my ignorance and you call on everyone except yourself to give you what you need. I'll push my own buttons and right my own wrongs. You'll wake yourself up and sing your won songs.

  Rob Brezsny

  Song, Ignorance, Giving

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• Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.

  Rob Brezsny

  Giving, Waiting, Self Empowerment

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.267, Frog Books

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• Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy the full measure of fun that comes with such mastery. Glide through life as if all of creation is yearning to honor and entertain you.

  Rob Brezsny

  Fun, Responsibility, Honor

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.277, Frog Books

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• In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Islands, Rights, Law

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• Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Cutting, Class

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• The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.

  Megan Abbott

  Ribs, Matter, Necks

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• We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the many laws, which have been obliged to be passed to protect them from their nearest male relatives, are a sufficient answer...They are evidently the production of men legislating for their own most obvious interest...without the slightest reference to the injustice they were committing against women.

  Marion Kirkland Reid

  Men, Law, Words Of Wisdom

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• Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the only means of obtaining the reforms we desire. As long as we remain excluded from civic life, men will attend to their own interests rather than to our.

  Hubertine Auclert

  Mean, Men, Long

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• Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Light, Imagination, Culture

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• I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.

  Ji Lee

  Thinking, Self, Age

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• When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Development, Clear, Turning Points

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.228, Vintage

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• The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.

  Don Rittner

  Tools, Attention, Pay

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Baby, Offering, Giving

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• Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

  Michelle Obama

  Hurt, Past, Destiny

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• I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Never underestimate the power of a woman.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Underestimate

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• Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Time, Women

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• The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become.

  Caroline Myss

  Taken, Healing, Passion

  "Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason". Book by Caroline Myss, 2009.

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• You are afraid of your own empowerment
  as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered.

  Caroline Myss

  Becoming, Empowered

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