Quotes about Empowerment
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
- Margaret Fuller
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Alone you are a warrior; together we are an army.
- Matshona Dhliwayo