Quotes About Empowerment

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.

My real passion is social justice, resolving the lack of empowerment, the lack of skills, the fact that young people can't get on the housing ladder, they feel they can't have a decent job, they feel they aren't in control of their lives.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.

I think that social media has really empowered bullies because you get to do it from the comfort of your own home, completely anonymously, with no ramifications.

Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.

I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think - with all the social media stuff - we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we're way cooler than we know.

When it comes to brands and having the opportunity to be an entrepreneur, social media has really become a great outlet for people to become their own boss.

Social media has been such a big important thing for young artists and minorities because it's a community to get noticed. It's having an audience that was never there before.

I grew up with social media. I am the boomerang queen. I enjoy this. I live this. The day I don't is the day I need to resign.

Social media absolutely changed my life and many others in a positive way.

It was tough to get to where I am, to get the following that I do have on social media and all the fans out there, which I greatly appreciate, but I would love to have a template so the next girl who grows up doesn't have to go through a lot of the hardships that we faced in our generation.

I just try to take a positive approach with my social media, with my Instagram. I just want people who go to my page to kinda feel inspired.

The brands that choose to use me, my agency and social media have given me a face and a voice.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

Social media has been both damaging and beneficial in terms of how we view our bodies.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.