Quotes About Empowerment

I am Born Free How Someone Can Hold Me In The Manacles of Slavery.

You can turn me into dust but you cannot suppress my voice of freedom.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause.

The more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom.

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements.

Emancipation of the toilers can be the work only of the toilers themselves.

Who does not know that without women we can feel no content or satisfaction throughout this life of ours, which but for them would be rude and devoid of all sweetness and more savage than that of wild beasts? Who does not know that women alone banish from our hearts all vile and base thoughts, vexations, miseries, and those turbid melancholies that so often are their fellows?

Bigger dreams of some black man who will weld all blacks together into a mighty fist.

There is not a Negro alive who does not have this rage in his blood–one has the choice, merely, of living with it consciously or surrendering to it. As for me, this fever has recurred in me, and does, and will until the day I die.

A woman deprived of her free will can never have the credit of making a sacrifice.

I guess my mom was all he had-the one flower that smelled like freedom

Quanti anni avevo quand'ho capito che su quel sentiero buio e solitario l'unica luce possibile era quella che io stessa avrei emanato?

Con ng??i không khu?t ph?c dÆ°á»›i hoàn c?nh hay nh?ng th? lá»±c t? bên ngoài, mà s? thua cuá»™c b?t ??u t? chính bên trong

Non potevo andare avanti così, dovevo reagire per orgoglio, non potevo seguire alla lettera tutto quello che mi dicevano gli altri o farmi trasportare dal fiume senza nemmeno provare a nuotare controcorrente.

I was tied by blood to no creature in this world. I could go anywhere, do anything. It was dizzying.

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own?

L?i chúc phúc v?ng xu?ng nhÆ° má»™t b?n thánh ca, và tôi c?u nguy?n. 'Con mu?n mình m?nh m? hÆ¡n

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

Because I have a lot of faith in you, I suddenly feel I out to tell you something. I learned it raising Yuichi. There were many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

Cuando me enfrenté a las tinieblas de mi corazón, cuando me sentí herida en lo más hondo y me rompí en pedazos, exhausta, de improviso emergió de mi interior una fuerza inexplicable

No había nadie en el mundo de mi misma sangre, y así, me era posible ir a cualquier lugar y hacer cualquier cosa. Era magnífico.

No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are.

As a model, I needed makeup. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It leveled my playing field.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.