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Powerless Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually -…
- Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
- Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and…
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- Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it… — John Legend
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- The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to… — Dalai Lama
- Excessive fear is always powerless. — Aeschylus
- The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the — Roy Barnes
- I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson