Quotes About Empowerment

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

I am really pleased that we managed to go a little beyond the white, middle class view on suffrage and women's rights, although not far enough.

People who play the victim role in their lives love to feel self-pity. They want you to think that what "happened" to them is who they are.

Victims are not vulnerable. They just haven't done their work. Do

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

Ironically, breast cancer gets so much attention partly because so many women survive it and become advocates, producing and participating in publicity-grabbing events such as the annual Race for the Cure.

In the communes, sir," he had said proudly, "you will find no churches. You see, religion is for the helpless. Here in China we are not helpless any more." ———

Who would be interested? I'm the son of a village blacksmith, never even graduated from high school. I'm just an ordinary person.

don't curse the darkness but light a candle.

Don't curse the darkness but light a candle.

Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.

When an occasion arose to exercise some virtue, he committed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless You enable me." Then he received more than sufficient strength.

It is better that we make our own history than be governed by the dead--William O. Douglas

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

The most important of these activists was Jimmy Garrett, a member of both the Black Panthers and SNCC. Garrett led discussion groups at which, as he later explained, "we would talk about ourselves seeking identity, and stuff like that. A lot of folks didn't even know they were black. A lot of people thought they were Americans".

She was not someone's sister, she was not someone's child. She was Dolores and Dolores was the good guys.

All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.

when I begin to feel overwhelmed, I pull back. I have learned to say no. When I'm around someone who drains me, I put up a barrier—a nonphysical wall that keeps that person's negative energy away.

The spiritual teacher Gary Zukav has said, "When you find an addiction, do not be ashamed. Be joyful. You have found something that you have come to this Earth to heal. When you confront and heal an addiction, you are doing the deepest spiritual work that you can do on this Earth.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. But we cannot move forward if we're still holding on to the pain of that past.

Because what I know for sure is that everything that has happened to you was also happening for you. And all that time, in all of those moments, you were building strength.

done. Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. But we cannot move forward if we're still holding on to the pain of that past. All of us who have been broken and scarred by trauma have the chance to turn those experiences into what Dr. Perry and I have been talking about: post-traumatic wisdom. Forgive yourself, forgive them. Step out of your history and into the path of your future.

Forgive yourself, forgive them. Step out of your history and into the path of your future.