Empowerment Quotes

Let every girl who marries stand by her husband, claim to be her husband's friend and equal, and refuse to be his slave. I am sure if you follow this advice, you will bring honour and glory to yourselves.

We have to be successful in national education affairs and we shall be. The liberation of a nation is only achieved through this way.

Education is the most important weapon to change the fate of a nation.

Turkey's true master is the peasant.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff.

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

Change starts local. Even global changes start small - with people like us. In our generation, the struggle of whether we connect more, whether we achieve our biggest opportunities, comes down to this - your ability to build communities and create a world where every single person has a sense of purpose.

If people are asking the question - is the direction for humanity to come together more or not? I think that answer is clearly yes. But we have to build the infrastructure to make sure the global community works for everyone.

The success of Facebook is because we empowered people. We gave people a way to share their opinion online that a lot of people didn't have before, and to connect with people that they didn't have before and that is why we have been so successful.

I think that there is a role that Facebook can play in empowering community leaders, to strengthen existing communities, to help build new communities, to help look out for people in their community, to help keep people safe.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Women hold up half the sky.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

With the help of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we have formed a Council with our neighbors in Canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to the networks, markets and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams.

Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that could have made for dividend payouts, but it also is money that's uplifting and improving the quality of life of people in the rural areas where we operate and work. We owe them that.

In the modern world the opportunities for women to give something of value to the human family are greater than ever, because, through their own efforts, they are now beginning to play their full part in public life.