Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria Steinem
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. -
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. -
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. -
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts. -
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
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