A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I’ve never been a feminist.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Now I do whatever I want.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

One man with courage is a majority.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I love stories about women.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.