Quotes about Empowerment
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.
— Dolly Parton
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 side up again.
— Sojourner Truth
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
— Victor Hugo
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.
— Oprah Winfrey
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
— Aldous Huxley
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
— Albert Schweitzer
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
— Nelson Mandela
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.
— Jurgen Moltmann