empowerment
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“We were fighting not only for sewer, potholes and police protection but for self-determination and empowerment of our community,” Martinez de Vara wrote in a firsthand account of the incorporation campaign.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
For York and Sacagawea, the expedition offered, briefly, agency and empowerment, only for these to disappear as they returned east.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Aoibh said she sees the play as a call for change and empowerment in County Tyrone and beyond.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
In response, Lamola said: "We reiterate that broad-based black economic empowerment is not reverse racism as regrettably insinuated by the ambassador."
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
The goal was “understanding,” not justice, and certainly not economic empowerment.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Vocabulary lists containing empowerment
President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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