Quotes About Empowerment

I'm a strong advocate for working and middle class families.

I want to help the middle class.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

Federal government has been a gateway to the middle class for people of color for generations.

Both in Raleigh and in Washington, middle class shouldn't mean second class.

Yes, i will - i will fight for my right and what i believe to be mine. People from the middle class have a right to live their lives with dignity. I have nothing to fear.

I lit up the Middle East when I lit up the world in the 1990s and gave people here something to be proud of.

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

I'm Latina and Middle Eastern. Not a lot of people look like me, and I want to embrace all ethnic cultures and make them feel like they're included.

If the deal is not right, just walk away. You don't have to take it, you don't have to keep going, arguing or trying to find a middle ground. If you're not comfortable with it, just go.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.

It shouldn't be normal to seldom see a single female face in a managerial position or on the boards of the biggest media companies, or to feel out of place sitting in a meeting room full of middle-class, middle-aged white men explaining to you how to tell your own story.

The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male.

I don't want a middle-aged white man telling me how to write my feelings. It's not gonna work for me.

I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista.

I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw that entrepreneurs and business leaders were just like me. It gave me a feeling that I could also do such things.

Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It's women helping women, believing in them at a time when they're thinking, 'Am I ever going to get through this?'

Wangari Maathai was a mighty woman, creative, fearless, and full of love.

We faced police dogs when we fought for justice for Mike Brown in Ferguson in 2014.

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.