Quotes About Empowerment

I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.

The destination of progress and development will be achieved by imparting latest education to the youth.

Giants of Africa holds such a special place in my heart. It's not just another non-profit organization - this is personal. What started as a dream to give back to the country that raised me has since blossomed into an intercontinental mission to uplift youth across the diaspora, and shed light on the greatest part of Africa: its people.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

I feel incredible that I've managed to connect with the youth.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

I have my own foundation, Nyle DiMarco Foundation, and it focuses on bettering deaf youths' lives.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.

I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.

If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.

The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.

We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - black men - for whatever reason, haven't done a good job of taking care of the weak. And we were doing things that render taking care of our youth and taking care of our women and our families impossible, when our lives are taken.

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.