A Quote by Audre Lorde

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

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Audre Lorde
American - Poet
February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

Marco Rubio

We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can get along this well, we can accomplish anything. The British policy was ‘divide and conquer.’ But I say ‘unite and conquer.

Greg Mortenson

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.

bell hooks

What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance.

Thom Tillis

You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

Ovid

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

J. Oswald Sanders

There’s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become empowered and live in their strength it’s beneficiary to others, and I think as young women today we sometimes forget that we are standing on the struggle of other women. Those women had to stand up to make a change, and they were not popular, and now we’re making them unpopular again.

Danai Gurira

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

Plato

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

Peter Rachleff

I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.

Richard Stallman

We must be able to identify those who want divide our movement, and say, 'Not in our name.' We need to choose leaders that will not divide the ANC.

Cyril Ramaphosa

Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.

Susan Forward

Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.