Quotes About Empowerment

I'm thankful for RuPaul and everything that he's done.

We should not wait any longer to ensure that women get the pay they deserve. I will keep fighting for this until we achieve equality. I am very thankful for all those who are already advocating for equal pay, and I hope others will join me in this fight.

I'm thankful that my daughter's father has allowed me to do what I do because that really makes a difference. I do believe a woman can have it all.

I'm thankful that l I have an amazing family, black women that raised me.

Thankfully, I have other skills than just standing there and looking cute.

I don't feed into negativity. I thankfully don't. That's just me.

Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

Thankfully, I've never had anyone tell me that I needed to lose weight or change my appearance.

The Bush administration and its 'we'll liberate you by invading your countries' doctrine is thankfully behind us. It is up to us to fight for our rights inside our communities.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over.

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

You tell me I play like a man, and I'll tell you, 'Hey, thanks.'

Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control without paying out of pocket. This lets women make the health care decisions that are right for them and puts every one of us in charge of our own reproductive health.

Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

The American Revolution was sparked by a series of taxes and tariffs on tea. More recently, the Thatcher and Reagan 'revolutions' were rooted in overturning the status quo - excessive taxation - to empower the individual and encourage a free society and prosperous economy.

As we all know there have been fabulous women chief executives: Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir.

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

I feel like I'm opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.

If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.