“Standards need to be applied across the board. There was an outcry when a former government employee was seen as benefiting from a huge empowerment deal in a sector he had an oversight of. When the private sector does a similar thing people need to voice their objections.”
“Indeed, the slogan is "midwives changing the world one baby at a time" and I believe that when we help women, when we help them to come to that sense of empowerment and that sense of a new self-definition, we are impacting the future, one baby at a time.”
“We applaud President Bush and his commitment to greater consumer health care empowerment. The evidence is mounting to show that informed consumers who control their own health care spending are also more likely to make better personal health care choices.”
One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
“I am encouraged that the Oklahoma legislature is joining Florida in providing consumer choice and better care for Medicaid beneficiaries. Patient empowerment, marketplace competition, access to quality care, and cost stability are worthy goals that Florida, Oklahoma, and every state should strive for in reforming Medicaid.”
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.