#pow

The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams. ↗

— Gary Patton

#empowerment #jesus #lifestyle #dreams

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#history #power #privilege #education

[A] friend in power is a friend lost. ↗

— Henry Adams

#friendship #power #education

Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it. ↗

— Micel Foucault "The Discourse on Language"

#education #foucault #knowledge #power #education

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’t interfere with. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#power #self #education

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#education #empowerment #inequality #men #women

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#education #gunpowder #guns #mind #printing-press

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#empowerment #equality #freedom #gender #independence

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery