#power

When we touch...our gods lay down their weapons and I can forgive every trespass... ↗

— Katie Waitman

#love #power-of-love #forgiveness

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #ideal-woman

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#freedom #job #students #freedom

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse. ↗

— Alan Moore

#oppression #politics #power #freedom

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#challenge #dismantle #domination #freedom #heirarchy

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#empowerment #impermanence #inspirational #life #motivational

Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #share-information #inspirational

Today is the only day in which we have any power. ↗