Quotes about Empowering Others

Madam Walker was an incredible woman, but she wasn't the only one of her time who was. She just took it to the highest height.

When I was really little, I wanted to be our first woman president. I always knew I want to be the kind of grownup who makes people's lives better. And since that's pretty much the job of the President of the United States, it seemed like a good idea.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

I just want to use my voice and my platform to help people. Whether it be political or therapeutic.

Hopefully everybody in the audience thinks, 'That's cool. I could do that.' I don't like the thought that they say, 'I saw the Beastie Boys last night, and they're mega-stars.' I'm a lot happier when the kids who come backstage or to the hotel try to give us tapes of what they've done instead of just getting an autograph.

I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.

Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

How many things would be different in everyone's surroundings if we hadn't lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something to him that he did it differently and better than he would otherwise. And through him somebody else was saved. How much we contribute to each other, how powerful we each are-and don't know it.

I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

I got on top of a car and began waving my arms and yelling at them to quiet down. They did quiet down, and then I asked them to disperse - and they did.

we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.

Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story.

The harm is in the unwanted help or helping them when they need to figure things out for themselves. Help is the sunny side of control.

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else.

I never used to take my turn. I always gave my turn away. I helped others have a great turn. I must have had a clipboard by the time I was six, because by then I had a whole caseload of people to keep track of. After they had all gotten a turn, then maybe I could go, if there was time and it didn't bother anyone. Now I take my turn, as a radical act.

Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are.