Quotes About Empowerment

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

We are the true friends of the negroes, always have been, and always will be, as long as they stay in the definite place we have provided for them.

The mind must make its own happiness; any troubles can be endured if the sufferer has resources of his own to sustain him.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten."

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that's it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!

It is not sufficient to tell native kids to be proud of who they are if we do not also at the same time tell them who they are. The struggle in connecting young people to their traditions is compounded by a school system that consistently provides opportunities to learn about others but very few for native kids to learn about themselves. We have a lot of work to do.

Uncle Sam is never going to come walking out of the bush or over the Plains and hand you your language on a silver platter, saying, "Sorry about the last five hundred years." The world is not a fair place. Fairness is not given, it is made. So we have to engineer it ourselves.

lamentar las cosas no sirve de nada y resolverlas sirve de mucho.

Llega a ser lo que eres».

Desde la debilidad se cede y desde la fortaleza se concede.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Sie lächelte ihn im Spiegel an. "Wen stört es, ob ich ein Spiegelbild voller Narben habe? Es war schon immer das verkehrte Spiegelbild. Ich weiß es jetzt. Ich lasse es hier.

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

La autonomía es lo menos gratuito de este mundo, y si no se conquista cotidianamente lleva en seguida a situaciones de agravio y servidumbre. Sólo hubo y hay tiranos porque otros prefirierons y prefieren rendirse al miedo antes que correr el riesgo de luchar.

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

Dicen que el hombre no es hombre mientras no oye su nombre de labios de una mujer.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

A man who is slave to his wife is already in the grave and he who is brave to his wife is like a lion out of the cave.

A man's demonstration of self-respect is to never go down on knees before a woman and his self-protection is to stay away from a person who does or asks the people to do such demeaning, kneel down acts.

A person does not need to step down from the head position of the organization to do philanthropy because running a company that gives mass employment with all employees' empowerment in terms of the right person at the right position & designation with the right salary money is in itself a big charity.