Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria Steinem
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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life. -
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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