Quotes about Empowerment
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
— Booker T. Washington
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
— Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
— Thomas Jefferson
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured
— Thomas Paine
If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free.
— Thomas Paine
As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in a way of beginning learning for himself afterward.
— Thomas Paine
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.
— Thomas Monson
When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.
— Thomas Monson