#power

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#hard-work #knowledge-wisdom #mind #power #writing

Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever. ↗

— Susan Patron

#higher-power #lucky #change

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#emancipation #empowerment #poverty #success #transformation

Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a tower, And trust unbroken, freedom, escape; Of changing and of shifting shape, Of snares eluded, broken traps, The prison opening, the chain that snaps. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#freedom #magic #power #change

The public option is not optional. It is our toe-hold on structural change. ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#courage #equality #freedom #inspirational #life

When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and rue by nothing more than those words, then he has power. And if a man can act without the appearance of action, and bring about great change without the appearance of desiring it, then he has power. ↗

— Brian Ruckley

#change

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#change #inertia #influence #willpower #change

The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#change #determination #power #will #change

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#change #distrust #love #negativity #power

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you. ↗

— Myles Horton

#empowerment #learning #the-answer #change