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Power Quotes by Audre Lorde
- Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to…
- I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness…
- For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut…
- The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our…
- My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular…
- For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power…
- When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether…
- The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
- What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once…
- For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts…
- If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo