Quotes about Empowerment

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world.

Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness. Conscience cannot stand much violence.

What still more shocking outrages were perpetrated upon his mind! with all his noble powers and sublime aspirations, how like a brute was he treated, even by those professing to have the same mind in them that was in Christ Jesus! to what dreadful liabilities was he continually subjected!

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

While you have strong frames and robust constitutions, you have not the gift of intellect—you could not think for yourselves—you could not provide for yourselves—so the Lord in his infinite goodness has given you kind masters to think for you—[laughter].

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The more you are led by God's love, the more you become yourself and it is all done without ever losing your freedom.

It meant nothing to teach men to be good unless He also gave them the power to be good