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“The day of happiness will be the memorable day of the emancipation of the people, and the day of emancipation will be the one when the great are put down and the small raised up; when there are neither masters nor slaves; bosses nor subordinates; powerful nor weak; oppressors nor oppressed; but when the vast Brazil is called the common homeland of Brazilian citizens or United States of Brazil.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Correio Paulistano, January 29, 1867. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama.
“The Americans have asked us to do an impossible thing… You have asked us to do something you failed to do, with half a million powerful troops and skilled commanders, and with nearly $300 billion in expenditure over six long years.”
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was given the mission, my role was to disrupt the Seoul Olympics. North Korea thought that hosting the Olympics would permanently divide the Koreas ... and make South Korea more economically powerful than the North. So I was ordered to harm the ‘South Korean puppets’ by hitting the flight.”
Kim Hyon-hui (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here's a heresy: "How do you know that?" is a powerful question for helping people think, but it's not the best question. The best question is, "How could that belief be wrong?”
Peter Boghossian (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was incredible seeing how powerful sport can be to break down barriers and bring people together”
Kirsty Coventry (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can forgive bad writing, shoddy camera work, you know, sloppy editing, but I can never forgive bad politics because mainstream media films are a very powerful platform and they can really influence a lot of people. So, when I see wrong politics being highlighted (in films), it really makes me angry.”
Kabir Khan (director) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always felt that being independent is one of the most powerful assets a person can have.”
Ange Kagame (born 1993) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said by Ange Kagame Visits The ADC Factory In Masoro MRO Canada's maintenance voice (June 23, 2015)
“That night my activism found a new target: to bring to the world a new understanding of the modern African continent — its youthful potential; its beauty, and most of all, the powerful African philosophy of ubuntu, which sheds light on what it means to be human, and how we can better treat each other for the betterment of us all.”
Elizabeth Nyamayaro (born 1975) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The ‘girl from Africa’ who is taking ubuntu to the world", Mail & Guardian (July 10, 2021)
“As the lights of the city glittered around me, I took a deep breath, thought of my gogo (grandmother) and my mother and all the powerful Africans I knew and know, and reminded myself: I am a girl from Africa.”
Elizabeth Nyamayaro (born 1975) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The ‘girl from Africa’ who is taking ubuntu to the world", Mail & Guardian (July 10, 2021)
“Intuition is a woman's most powerful asset. Intuition combined with logic makes for some of the most rewarding and accurate line of judgement.”
Natalie Payida Jabangwe (born 1983) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Newspaper https://thestandard.newsday.co.zw/2016/12/04/zim-scale-hiv-prevention-interventions/
“To the girl child i want to say you are amazing. The world is really unfair but it owes you absolutely nothing. Every rejection that is thrown at you, use it to build your own strength.” Gogontlejang Phaladi, Powerful women in Botswana , YouTube (25 February 2017). Retrieved 24 November 2021.”
Gogontlejang Phaladi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nevertheless, even the most benign and powerful of these nation-groups had still to consider everything outside of itself as potential enemy, and therefore self-interest still ruled.”
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men are realizing that although this has been the case for some time, want, fear, disease and war are still allowed to make havoc of their lives, and that therefore someone or something is betraying them even unto death. They are becoming aware that they themselves are allowing this to happen, and are therefore somehow guilty, because in reality they, the people, are all powerful.”
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are golden, intelligent, worthy, powerful, strong, beautiful, and you never doubt it. You must stand tall, take up space. Never shrink. Never apologize for your greatness," she declared.”
Funke Akindele (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“interpersonal relation is a very powerful tool for being a good leader.”
Stellah Wairimu Bosire-Otieno (born 1986) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjHkBYuoGU 2016 Sep 16th
“I am a student of literature and history. I believe that art is a powerful tool for us in our society to use, to depict all the things that are going on, and a possible escape for some of us who are traumatized by the things we see in Nigeria.”
Bolanle Austen-Peters (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s something about the human condition that wants to build community outside the family and there’s something about how that intersects with information that makes it a very powerful and potent thing”
Nanjala Nyabola wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“THANK YOU: Similar to women, men appreciate recognition for efforts small and little. “Thank you” is a straightforward yet powerful phrase that shows them your appreciation for what they do. (Here’s a tip, ladies: if you say “Thank you” on a regular basis for something they do, they are much more likely to do it again.)”
Esther Ijewere wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own”. Mr Fox (2011) p 171”
Helen Oyeyemi (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In established interests are the most powerful force of resistance to good.”
Daniel Salamanca (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is very easy to be a skilled man at the head of a powerful country. The difficult thing is to be one when representing a weak country.”
Daniel Salamanca (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our nation's founding documents are kept in a vault in Washington, D.C. because they are so fragile that exposure to oxygen and movement would cause them to crumble in your hand. Those documents cannot stop a bullet or a sword and are only powerful if the truth found in the words of those documents resonate in the heart of a people.”
Phill Kline (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But it is only half the story. If powerful religious commitments lead to politically driven abuses of science, so does an unswerving commitment to the bottom line.”
Chris Mooney (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Brothers! Let us study the all-powerful and life-giving commandments of our great God, Creator, and Redeemer. Let us learn them assiduously, by word and by life. They are read in the holy Gospels, but they are known only as much as they are done in actual fact.”
Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the journey ahead requires vision and responsibility. 5G is a powerful catalyst for shaping Ghana's future”
Nana Akufo-Addo (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hidilyn Diaz' powerful message to the Philippines. Olympic.com. Retrieved December 14, 2025.”
Hidilyn Diaz (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will build a powerful military force that can assuredly deter any provocation to protect the safety and property of our citizens, and safeguard the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our nation.”
Yoon Suk-yeol (born 1960) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: South Korea’s president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol vows tougher stance on North Korea, ‘mutual respect’ with China" in South China Morning Post (10 March 2022)
“The NBA cannot claim to defend the rule of law while ignoring abuses by powerful state actors,”
Omoyele Sowore (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have always defied the odds. And we are going to do it again, together. We are going to prove that our shared future is more powerful than the issues that divide us.”
Gretchen Whitmer (born 1971) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "5 things Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in her inaugural address". Detroit Free Press. (January 1, 2019).
“The powerful attacks which are taking place on the South Vietnam battlefields show that our people have the required determination and strength to defeat the US aggressors, liberate the South, defend the North and advance toward the peaceful reunification of the country.”
Trường Chinh (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...one of the powerful dynamics of leadership is being visible. One of the vulnerabilities of being visible is that when you’re visible, you can be seen; and when you can be seen, you can be touched; and when you can be touched, you can be hurt.”
David Whyte (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that’s living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.”
Robert D. Bullard (born 1946) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Minorities suffer most from industrial pollution" NBC News (December 13, 2005)
“It is true that I was a cinematographer, so for me, the narration of the spectacular is powerful and important. I always pay special attention to the expression of the pictures. It has always been my style.”
Zhang Yimou (born 1950) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No one to be Missed" in Off Screen (April 1999)
“If two or more radiometric clocks running at different rates give the same age, this is powerful evidence that the ages are correct.”
Brent Dalrymple (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When God created the world, He placed sin and ignorance within satisfication of the appetite and knowledge and wisdom withing hunger. When Sahl hungered he was powerful, and whenever he ate, he became weak.”
Sahl al-Tustari (818–896) said by 896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all […] Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two stormtroop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare.”
Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that creating one large car-free section of an American city would be a powerful example of what's possible. It would prove to people that it could be done and would show how eliminating cars could improve quality of life, improve the environment, and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.”
Andy Singer (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is how politics works in the age of right-wing media domination: invoke a powerful stereotype, preferably in the form of a carefully-crafted sound bite, and people forget to think.”
Jen Sorensen (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The presidential primaries are not for the thinking person. All the nonstop chatter about the candidates' temperaments makes me wonder why I even bother to learn about things like, you know, issues...In this precarious time of war, global warming, a health care crisis, and economic woes, this is how we decide the leader of the most powerful nation on earth?”
Jen Sorensen (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the most privileged and powerful members of society can escape the hassles and declines in service the rest of us must put up with, there's that much less impetus for change. Some might say, "They're paying for it. Get over it." While I understand that reasoning, it seems limited in scope, failing to question the larger system that created the neo-aristocracy in the first place.”
Jen Sorensen (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been in rooms with women brainstorming and I just think we are such powerful problem solvers who can conquer any challenge out there; so I just invite more ladies to lose the inner critic and take that leap into tech and other non-traditional female enterprises.”
Tuduetso Masire wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mobilizing the efforts of the various strata and sectors of our societies could become a powerful driving force for progress in the fight against the AIDS pandemic.”
Leonid Kuchma (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They just renamed a road in Chicago after Ida B. Wells, [and] that’s powerful. You see that, and you’re like, “Well, who’s Ida B. Wells?” If you didn’t know, you’re going to learn. It’s going to be a reminder of that history.”
Bree Newsome (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A new evangelization is needed that takes into account our post-immigrant, post-seminary situation. It will necessarily be focused on creating a faith that is based more on a personal encounter with the living Jesus Christ than upon any ethnic or social factors. Given the powerful experience of the Catholicism of our youth, we, the Church in Canada, approach this task with much hope.”
Michael Bzdel (1930–2012) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops (November 1997) Press Office of the Holy See
“I have developed a fine sense of my weaknesses, and I address those by building my team with people who have that strength I may lack. So I flip any weakness I may have and make it a strength … Weakness recognition, and a full embrace of that, is a powerful tool.”
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Free markets can't be separated from other freedoms Americans have cherished and sometimes taken for granted. Due process, the rule of law, free speech, a free press and honest elections have been among our most powerful advantages in the global economy.”
Robert Rubin (born 1938) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Have Business Leaders Gone Silent?", Wall Street Journal (January 15, 2026)
“People in prison are part of America, as are those who have been released. They are part of our society. And we have a powerful stake in their success.”
Robert Rubin (born 1938) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Smart Way to Help Ex-Convicts, and Society", New York Times (June 3, 2016)
“There's many valid and powerful ways to show pride in our cultures and where we come from.”
Jean Guerrero (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want my lineage to be a lineage of someone who fought hard for human existence on this planet. My despair and grief and fear and anger informed that, and they're powerful parts of that fight, just as much as my love.”
Adrienne Maree Brown (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are all mothers,and we have that fire within us,of powerful womenwhose spirits are so angry, we can laugh beauty into life and still make you taste the salty tears of our knowledge.”
Abena Busia (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source