Quotes about Empowerment
It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
— Thomas Jefferson
No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
— Thomas Jefferson
If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.
— Malcolm X
Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.
— Malcolm X
It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
— Marcus Aurelius
Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
— Marianne Williamson
Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.
— Marianne Williamson
We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
— Muhammad Ali
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
— Mark Twain
Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
— Mark Twain
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
— Mark Twain
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
— Mark Twain