Quotes About Empowerment

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

We believe in public education. We think it's important in our country to have it and for us to support it.

But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren't that many of us.

There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.

I want people to see me as the entrepreneur, the boss, the public figure, the person who motivates.

Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.

As someone who grew up in public housing, I've known these conditions.

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.

I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.

Often, I'm up against both - position and money power. And yes, a system that needs to be more 'woman-friendly.' I believe these experiences will probably give birth to a more public life, where I can address the issues of women that need help in being heard, for I have understood what it is to be in that position.

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

In Rwanda, which has gone through a devastating civil war and has a per-capita income of $16 per year, half of members of Parliament are women. But in most countries, including the United States, theres a paucity of women in public office.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

Having grown up in a Black neighborhood, gone to a segregated Black public school that was overcrowded and underfunded, watched my neighbors be displaced when rents went up and they couldn't afford to pay them - all this shaped my career.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.