Quotes About Empowerment

In the cybereconomy, they will never see you. The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young and beautiful on equal terms in utterly color-blind anonymity on the new frontiers of cyberspace.

Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don't think I can fend for myself?

Yeah, we've heard that before. This time we mean it. We're not going to sit back and let you treat us like rats anymore. We're done.

THOMAS, YOU'RE THE REAL LEADER

You have no right to be silenced.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

I am the son of a murdered woman—anybody who'd call my books misogynistic is, frankly, out of their fucking mind.

One of Watson's many passionately held beliefs was that too many people failed to fulfil their potential because they didn't make enough effort to use their brains. He insisted that the word 'THINK' be posted on placards around C-T-R's offices and also on people's desks.

Freeedom is not something you beg your enemies for, freedom is what you get when we stand up like Men and fight for Freedom, Justice and Equality

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.

If not me, who?" "Who? You're Condor, not an owl.

The cross can heal and hurt; it can be empowering and liberating but also enslaving and oppressive. There is no one way in which the cross can be interpreted. I offer my reflections because I believe that the cross placed alongside the lynching tree can help us to see Jesus in America in a new light, and thereby empower people who claim to follow him to take a stand against white supremacy and every kind of injustice.

The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.

If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth.

The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.

any analysis of the gospel which did not begin and end with God's liberation of the oppressed was ipso facto unchristian.

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to shop for fish at Whole Foods, he'll be broke within the year.

Look a'here, some people say we got a lot of malice Some say it's a lotta nerve I say we won't quit moving Til we get what we deserve. We've been 'buked and we've been scourned We've been treated bad, talked about As just as sure as you're born But just as sure as it take Two eyes to make a pair, huh Brother, we can't quit until we get our share. Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.

Pass the Ball Enlightened leaders deliberately hand over responsibility in order to create engaged team-players able to adapt their approach to suit the conditions. 'Command & Control' in a VUCA world is unwieldy and increasingly uncompetitive.