Quotes About Empowerment

It was just a matter of survival?like getting off the road?so we could exist form day to day.

I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

As secretary of the NAACP, I recorded and sent membership payments to the national office, answered telephones, wrote letters, and sent out press releases to the newspapers. One of my main duties was to keep a record of cases of discrimination or unfair treatment or acts of violence against black people.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." - Rosa Parks

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, [...] the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

One of my greatest pleasures there was enjoying the smell of bacon frying and coffee brewing and knowing that white folks were doing the preparing instead of me. I was 42 years old, and it was one of the few times in my life up to that point when I did not feel any hostility from white people.

What I learned best at Miss White's school was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

Pain will no longer be our curse, Molly

It will be our revenge and our reason. I have made it my catalyst and my propeller. It seems only fair don't you think?

At last I realized that Jesus Christ was actually and literally within me.

God's greatest provision is the gift of a part of His Own Being in the person of the Holy Spirit.

Women were not and never had been the weaker sex, she reflected. They could make sacrifices from which men would ever shy away.

Every gain, every success for women is taken to mean that men are being cheated and denigrated. To me it's healthier to turn the question around. While women were straining every muscle, nerve and bone for the last thirty years, while they labored to remake themselves, their lives and the world, what were twentieth-century men doing all this time? And how long will it take them to join in and support us?

Women are the greatest wronged and still-suffering majority in the history of the world, and we can never say that loudly or long enough.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. ~Rosalind Russell

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.

Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.

ou know chicks before dicks. Never choose a guy over a friend. It's one of the most important rules of feminism.