Quotes about Empowerment
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
— Dan Quayle
Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.
— Michael Smith
Transparent' was my coming-out party.
— Trace Lysette
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
— Sojourner Truth
That… man… says women can't have as much rights as man, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from?… From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
— Sojourner Truth
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
— Sojourner Truth
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
— Sojourner Truth
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
— Sojourner Truth
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right again.
— Sojourner Truth
If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.
— Sojourner Truth
We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here.
— Sojourner Truth