Quotes about Empowerment

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.

The great dream of Judaism is not to raise priests, but a people of priests; to consecrate all men, not only some men.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

How impossible, how utterly absurd it would be for the disciples-- these disciples, such men as these!--to try and become the light of the world! No, they are already the light, and the call has made them so.

May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.