Empowerment Quotes - Page 23

• People say I am lucky. I am lucky indeed because what can be better luck than to have the blessings of 125 crore Indians.

  Narendra Modi

  Blessing, People, Luck

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• People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Village, Towns

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• Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Children, Tree

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• Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase!

  Narendra Modi

  India, Poison, Village

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• We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.

  Narendra Modi

  Cities, People, India

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• It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

  Narendra Modi

  Pride, Community, India

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• In order to make India prosperous, all sections and regions of the society needed to be prosperous.

  Narendra Modi

  Order, India, Needed

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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Fighting, People, Water

  "GDP Not Good Enough: The Need for a New Metric for Growth in a Changing World" by Pallavi Roy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2016.

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• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Priorities, Example, Gender Equality

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• Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Issues, Water, Together

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• My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

  Hans Rosling

  Rights, Data, Numbers

  "Hans Rosling: the man who's making data cool". Interview with Claire Provost, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Important, Use

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• In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.

  Steve Ballmer

  Creativity, Kids, Technology

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• And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

  Barack Obama

  Xbox, Mean, Ipads

  "CNN Student News Transcript". Interview with Carl Azuz, www.cnn.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I feel like people think of me as someone who really believes in a "sex as empowerment" philosophy, like Sasha Grey or something, when actually I feel like I'm much more what a lot of liberal feminists would call "sex negative" than most women I know.

  Marie Calloway

  Sex, Philosophy, Believe

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• What empowerment is all about [is] finding something which infuses you with a sense of mission, with a passion for your life's work. I don't believe there is one path for women or one nature to fulfill. Real fulfillment, real empowerment is often different than we imagine and better than we plan.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Real, Believe, Passion

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• I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.

  Mayim Bialik

  Mom, Pregnancy, Book

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• Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

  Weili Dai

  Technology, Keys, Female

  "Women! Embrace your inner geek" by Weili Dai, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2012.

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• President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.

  Lael Brainard

  Political, President, Levels

  "Political leaders often overlook the key to economic growth: women" by Lael Brainard, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat

  Narendra Modi

  Effort, India, Needs

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• My concern is the holistic development of society. No one should go back, everyone must move forward. Enough time has been spent going backwards; now let us pledge to stride ahead, whether it's in education, health, agriculture or education of our daughters. This Government belongs to the poor. It is to support the destitute.

  Narendra Modi

  Daughter, Moving, Government

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• A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't.

  Debby Ryan

  Real, Healthy, And Love

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Thinking, Drug Use

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The parastatals are an important driver of the process of Black Economic Empowerment and they have been doing it, and will continue to do it.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Black, Important, Economic

  Source: www.gov.za

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