Quotes about Empowerment
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
— Cicero
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
— Bob Marley
Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.
— Michael Douglas
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any
— Marilyn Monroe
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady
— Marilyn Monroe
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
— Marilyn Monroe
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
— Marilyn Monroe
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
— Marilyn Monroe