Power Quotes

Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.

25234 quotes

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."
Sojourner Truth
"I have more machinery in the back shed than any man in this place, and I know it."
Sojourner Truth
"There is great power in the women of this nation; they need only to understand and use it."
Sojourner Truth
"The power of my words comes not from my education but from my experience."
Sojourner Truth
"I am not asking for permission to be free; I am declaring my freedom."
Sojourner Truth
"I will not accept a place of inferiority; it is against my nature."
Sojourner Truth
"I have seen the power of women united in purpose, and it is unstoppable."
Sojourner Truth
B
"Brute force cannot retain a thing which it is not capable of appreciating."
Booker T. Washington
S
"I declare that woman has been the slave of man."
Susan B. Anthony
S
"I declare that the true republic is such wherein there is no man who has authority to compel another to be his slave."
Susan B. Anthony
S
"I declare that woman must not depend upon the protection of man."
Susan B. Anthony
S
"I declare that woman has been the slave of man."
Susan B. Anthony
"The media's the most powerful entity on Earth"
Malcolm X
"Don't respect the system; use the system"
Malcolm X
"The man in power, his life is always in danger"
Malcolm X
"Power never takes a step back only in the face of more power"
Malcolm X
"The vote is the most powerful weapon in a man's hand."
Thurgood Marshall
F
"The man who is possessed of wealth, which can command the services of others, is a man of power."
Frederick Douglass
R
"Each person must take responsibility for their own life."
Rosa Parks
R
"The voice of the people, when united, cannot be silenced."
Rosa Parks
W
"Beware of the tyranny of the minority who think they know what is best for the majority."
W.E.B. Du Bois
S
"I wish to see woman placed in such a position in society as that she shall not be dependent upon any man."
Susan B. Anthony
S
"I declare women must have control over their own property."
Susan B. Anthony
S
"I declare women must have the power to control their own destiny."
Susan B. Anthony
"We women are not content to be passengers in this vessel; we must also navigate it."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"When you put restrictions on a human being, restrictions come off in the form of an explosion."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"I want women to have power over their own lives and over the direction of society."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"The media's the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent."
Malcolm X
"The Negro should be given a chance to do things for himself."
Malcolm X
"The people have the ultimate power. Not us, not the government. The people do."
Thurgood Marshall