Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
There’s a lot of activism that doesn’t deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
Walmart’s Global Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.
Once a date asked me what I do, so I said that my company empowers women in their dating lives. Her response? ‘Aw, that’s so cute!’ Cute is how my babysitter described me when I was 7 years old. Simple fix: Replace cute with hot and he’ll feel like James Bond.
We love Ronda Rousey – talk about someone who empowers women!
European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
You want to empower people who think like you do.
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
At Translation, we pride ourselves on being one of the most diverse agencies in the industry – and with that diversity comes a wealth of different talents and perspectives. The onus is on us to empower our employees to use those considerable talents to create real systemic change.
If you work hard and you work for somebody who empowers you and challenges you, you’ll be successful.
Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.
I know myself pretty well, and I know what I’m good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.
Good jobs that allow Coloradans to pursue their dreams and provide for their families are vital to a prosperous country and empower each person.
Certainly we have made mistakes, but you try and learn from your mistakes. And the most important thing is always to move forward and, I think, empower people to do their best, and to lead. I think people respect that and work better under those circumstances.
While a physical barrier can be effective in urban areas, each sector of the border faces unique geographical, cultural and technological challenges that would be best addressed with a flexible, sector-by-sector approach that empowers the Border Patrol agents on the ground with the resources they need.
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations – organizations, agencies – we need to do our part.
When I opened my gym, I got rid of the scales! Stepping on a scale empowers an inanimate object – every time you get on it, you turn over the helm of your emotional well being to something that doesn’t care about you.
I think parental leave is enormously important – and it’s a personal decision. Part of building a company whose goal is to empower women in all aspects of life is that I’ve given my team some leeway to determine what parental leave looks like for each of them individually.
I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.
Unless you empower your domestic investor and domestic industry and domestic confidence in the sector, no foreigner is going to come.
At Microsoft, we know first-hand how passionate entrepreneurs can change the world. We believe that technology can empower everyone to achieve more.
My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
Make choices to empower yourself.
Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies – I have movies I’m developing, and things that I’m interested in.
What we do is unique in helping empower athletes and their voice through long-form and short-form content to social to our products.
We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
SleepScore Max empowers me to identify my own sleep issues and gives me advice for better sleep to maximize my performance every day. It’s critical to measure and quantify improvements while training.
I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing ‘Carmen,’ and I’m considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women.
Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that’s always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them.
We need a modern people’s lobby that empowers all of us to choose our leaders and set our agenda. Imagine voting for a president we’re truly excited about. Imagine a government that promotes capitalism and civil rights.
That’s where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I’ve had for my kids.
I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts.
A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.
By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.
If we’re going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we’re going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don’t include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.
Our vision is to make a tangible difference at the intersection of those values and people’s lives, shining light on critical issues as well as providing opportunities and pathways of success to empower and unlock people’s tremendous potential.
The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that’s where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.
We started our company out of a need to survive, but we’ve built it based on a mission not only to help others survive but to prosper. Because of that, our purpose – to empower people to live more beautiful lives – compels us to keep community at our core.
Donald Trump has not yet earned my vote. And I’m not simply going to say ‘never,’ because I do not want to empower Hillary Clinton.
Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.
To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the patriarchy. This also implies that women must be on the receiving end, waiting – politely – to be empowered. Very Victorian-era courtship, isn’t it?
Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they’re being beaten down every single day is so important.
The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
The great thing about a big studio movie is that you get to work with the best, the most talented craft people in the world. But you have to be able to communicate, trust, and empower everybody.
Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.
I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.
I want to empower people. I want people to know that they can take their health in their own hands.
The mission of Booking is to empower people to experience the world. Whatever people want to do, wherever they want to go, they can book it with us.
I think that if we want to create a healthier country, we need to empower more people to make changes in their lives. But we also have to empower them to help change their environment.
I have a greater goal – to empower young people through music education.
I have strived to empower women and girls throughout my entire career.
Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, ‘Hey, I am just like you.’
