Quotes About Empowerment

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

By any means necessary.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us.

the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.

It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

Your success and happiness start with you.

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.