Quotes About Empowerment

Daydreaming subverts the world.

Oppression is no longer centralized, for it is everywhere. The positive aspect of this disintegration is that everyone begins to see, in their state of almost complete isolation, that they must first save themselves, make themselves the centre, and from their own subjectivity build a world where they can be at home anywhere.

for years the youths of america keep telling me this:-I'm bored! when I ask them why, they have no answer. my concern goes deeper-I ask, how can your life be so empty in a land of plenty? that's when I begin to share my reggae education with them. its good to see them develop a sense of purpose after that discourse.

Try this! throw one stone in the air and think. This stone could only consider itself to be free, if it could forget the hand that hath thrown it. I will share a secret of bob marley and I reasonings with you. Listen, he sang, no chains around my feet, yet I'm not free!. Where, and from whom do you think he got that?

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

Have you ever noticed the phenomena that humans can be at their best when things are at their worst? At such times, we can be heroic, actively compassionate, demonstratively generous, and completely selfless. Why do you suppose that is? Might it be our Ancestors and beloved Dead empowering us as allies from a higher plane of existence? Perhaps it may even be the soul taking the reins when the consciousness of the person is stunned into inaction.

The soul is drawn into a lineage that anchors it in a specific current within the Material Plane. There are many lessons to be gained and many challenges to temper the soul. There is also a flowing river of consciousness from the past that empowers us with knowledge and wisdom.

If the faith of underachievement holds anything to be true, it's that by not striving to be better than someone else, you're free to better yourself.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities ?I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I believe that if you hire a man to do a job, you ought to get out of the way and let him do it.

I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

The fact that she had no bookkeeping experience bothered me not at all. I knew she would master the technical routines quickly. So I told her I couldn't pay much, but if she was willing to work hard anyhow, I could promise her a bright future. We talked the same language. She did work hard—unbelievably hard—and in less than twenty years she was one of the top women executives in the country, secretary and treasurer of McDonald's Corporation. June

citizen participation in planning and well understands that that can happen only at the neighborhood level.

Native Americans and African Americans, although victimized, hardly remained passive. Using a variety of strategies, they tried to take advantage of the rift between colonists and the mother country:

All men are created equal," at the time, was certainly not intended to include women, slaves, or Indians. It was a radical concept for its day, regardless of its limited scope. Beyond that, as Wood and others have maintained, the concept of equality served as a blueprint for the future, pointing in a direction which would eventually extend across the lines of gender and to all racial, ethnic, religious, or political minorities.

Liberty to slaves"—it must have sounded so sweet. On plantations throughout the Chesapeake region African Americans held in bondage spread the news.

Two runaways who were captured by the patriots reported that three-quarters of the soldiers who manned the garrison were Negroes and that "all the blacks who are sent to the fort at the great Bridge, are supplied with muskets, Cartridges &c strictly ordered to use them defensively & offensively.

Your destiny is now your own to forge as best as you may.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Social justice is about freeing people from the clutches of witch doctors and superstition....