Quotes About Empowerment

Responsibility simply means your ability to respond. If you decide, "I am responsible," you will have the ability to respond. If you decide, "I am not responsible," you will not have the ability to respond.

It is important to see that whatever seems determined in your life has been determined by you unconsciously.

Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice.

If your thought and your emotion are of your making, you can mold them any way you like. There is scientific proof today that without ingesting a drop of alcohol or any other substance, you can get fully intoxicated by yourself. An Israeli organic chemist, Raphael

With a little awareness, every human being can begin to transform habit into choice, compulsion into consciousness.

Only if you realize you are responsible do you have the freedom to create yourself the way you want to be, not as a reaction to the situations in which you exist. Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.

Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.

But above all, it is an important tool that empowers human beings to break free from the compulsive patterns of their lives.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive...

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was What's your alma mater? I told him, Books. You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

You are either free or not free

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a club. That's equality. If the United States government doesn't want you and me to have rifles, then take the rifles away from those racists. If they don't want you and me to use clubs, take the clubs away from the racists. If they don't want you and me to get violent, then stop the racists from being violent. Don't teach us non-violence!!!

Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.

Tell him that he and all of the other moderate Negroes who are getting somewhere need to always remember that it was us extremists who made it possible.

you will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

By making our people in the Western Hemisphere hate Africa, we ended up hating ourselves. We hated our African characteristics. We hated our African identity. We hated our African features. So much so that you would find those of us in the West who would hate the shape of our nose. We would hate the shape of our lips. We would hate the color of our skin and the texture of our hair. This was a reaction, but we didn't realize that it was a reaction.

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.