#power

I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We were a democracy... But I knew it wasn't a dream; there was a painful lump on the side of my head... The state and its police were not neutral referees in a society of contending interests. They were on the side of the rich and powerful. Free speech? Try it and the police will be there with their horses, their clubs, their guns, to stop you. From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical, believing that something fundamental was wrong in this country--not just the existence of poverty amidst great wealth, not just the horrible treatment of black people, but something rotten at the root. The situation required not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society--cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#authoritarianism #bill-of-rights #constitution #democracy #egalitarianism

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#sex #world

We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard’s education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of available power, but to use well the kind you’ve been granted. ↗

— Susan Cain

#introverts #magic #personality #power #strength

If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy, but we know that there are many highly educated, highly qualified, and highly experienced people who just manage to scrape by, if at all. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#financial-control #mind-power #pverty #stephen-richards #wealth-creation

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever. ↗

— J.Z. Colby

#educational #personal-power #science-fiction #young-adult #education

Read to lead in order to succeed. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#empowerment #inspirational #leadership #motivational #reading

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#equality #gender #man #men-world #power

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#equality #females #girls #human-beings #women

If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others feel good. ↗

— Anne Hill

#power #spirituality #equality

It's not just about the money. It's about fairness, and equality, and how profoundly our political culture is infused with the imperatives to keep us divided on the most fundamental bases ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#freedom #inspirational #life #politics #power