Quotes About Empowerment

What gives you strength at any circumstance is your understanding of yourself.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

My one wish for humanity is that everyone can become the person they were meant to be - what are the barriers to that? Often it's crushing poverty or certain circumstances.

It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

You can't always change your circumstances, but you can change the way you experience them.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen.

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

The armed citizen made America free, and the armed citizen will keep America free!

I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen.

Each citizen of India is a nation builder.

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

Rock 'n' roll was uniting black kids and white kids, and rock 'n' roll is not being given credit... for being just as important to the civil rights movement as the activists.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.