Quotes About Empowerment

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.

Lucky Thompson and Milt Jackson

They called me 'the angriest Negro in America.' I wouldn't deny that charge. I spoke exactly as I felt. 'I believe in anger. The Bible says there is a time for anger.

El amo cogió a Tom y lo vistió bien, lo alimentó bien y hasta le dio un poquito de educación - un poquito de educación- le dió una levita y un sombrero de copa e hizo que todos los esclavos lo mirarán con respeto.

To the very end, Malcolm sought to refashion the broken strands between the American Negroes and African culture. He saw in this the road to a new sense of group identity, a self-conscious role in history, and above all a sense of man's own worth which he claimed the white man had destroyed in the Negro.

I'm not a diner until you let me dine

Once he is motivated no one can change more completely than a person who has been at the bottom.

I think the white man has to face the fact that black people in this country are tired of sitting around waiting for the white man to make up his mind that we are human beings.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

I clung to my tears, refusing to give them to him.

I will not play a minor role in my own life (p. 271)

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher

Happiness Habits for Empowerment 1. Focus on the Solution 2. Look for the Lesson and the Gift 3. Make Peace with Yourself

Destrói a opinião, e destruído estará o pensamento "fui prejudicado". Destrói a queixa "fui prejudicado", e destruído estará o dano.

Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Kindness is invincible.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.

So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What

7. Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been.

52. You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.