Quotes about Empowerment
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
- Shirley Chisholm
I think dad would be very proud of young people standing up to promote truth, justice and equality.
- Martin Luther King III
Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.
- Bob Marley
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
- Malcolm X
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
- Charles Dickens
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
- Charles Hodge
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
- William Barclay
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
- Calvin Coolidge