Quotes About Empowerment

We live in hell, Mason. We are born into hell. You fight or you go under. And anyone who tries to pull you out, gets pulled under too. All you can do is help people to help themselves. But the bottom line? You have to do it yourself.

Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.

Wherever women have the vote, wherever girls stay in school for longer, wherever women are in charge of their own lives and not dictated to by men, wherever they have access to good healthcare and contraption, wherever they are free to take any job and their aspirations for life are raised, the birth rate falls. The reason for this is straightforward - empowerment brings freedom of choice and when life offers more options for women, their choice is often to have fewer children.

It's neither safe nor practical to assume that man in your life can be counted on to take care of your finances.

Don't ever put your entire financial fate in someone else's hands.

In all, working women currently earn more than $1 trillion a year and account for upwards of 52 percent of all earned household income in this country. There are currently over 9 million female-owned businesses in America, generating more than $3.6 trillion in annual revenues.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Democratic President Grover Cleveland removed Frederick Douglass from office but Republican President Benjamin Harrison reappointed him.

stay, do so in peace and love. Above all, free yourself from the control of others by making your own choices and recognizing your own boundaries.

So what Epictetus was telling his students was that there can be no such thing as being the "victim" of another. You can only be a "victim" of yourself. It's all in how you discipline your mind. Who

The Self is the ultimate authority and our only true support.

Harlem had needed something to smash. To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need.

Freedom is not something that can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

You'll find that there's a strange freedom in letting go of your denials and fears. When you're prepared to accept that you are the one who makes things happen in your own life, you stop fearing the unknown and start realizing that you have control over every situation. It's up to you to make this work, which means that you have absolute opportunity to make sure it does.

I'm not crazy for feeling this way. They're crazy for trying to stop me. And if it's the last time I ever get to feel joy again, I won't let them have it.

At some point you have to stop and say 'Enough. This is me.' and fight for it as hard as you can.

If you just amass the courage that is necessary, you can completely reinvent yourself. You can be your own hero.

Hello? Testing? My name is Jonathan Collins. I am seventeen years old. Today is... some day in July 1993. And I am okay. Scratch that, I am more than okay. I am... I am... I AM.

Say It Loud: "I'm Black and I'm Proud."Some people say we've got a lot of malice,Some say it's a lot of nerve.But I say we won't quit movingUntil we get what we deserve.