Quotes About Empowerment

No greater good can come to any man or woman than to become self-active. All the experiences of life are designed by Providence to force men and women into self-activity; to compel them to cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment.

This limitless reservoir of wisdom and power is open to you; you can draw upon it as you will, according to your needs. You can make yourself what you desire to be; you can do what you wish to do; you can have what you want.

You must so impress others that they will feel that in associating with you they will get increase for themselves.

Poetry is not about authority. Poetry is one of the few thing we all have access to all the time that transcends and transforms authority into freedom.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgement over his destiny.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgment over his destiny.

Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Nobody is profane or unclean. Nobody can be discounted. Nobody is second-class. Nobody is subject to dismissal. Nobody should be cheap labor. Nobody should suffer systems of violence. Old living is contradicted by the truth of the Spirit. The superstition of superiority is broken. The old distinction of chosenness is placed in question.

doing economic justice for the vulnerable in generous, intentional ways, is communion with God.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Reading is not optional.

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

How much of a barrier to self-improvement is discrimination? What kinds of tools are in the ready grasp of those subjected to it? Surely one doesn't want to sit around waiting for the end to discrimination.