Quotes About Empowerment

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

You don't have to choose between June Cleaver or Barbara Walters. There are miles of space between them.

I'm nicknaming millennials 'the purpose generation' because we're making so many decisions.

Above all, we want Millennials to realize that they can have an impact on the world and that, in the course of empowering others, they can also empower themselves.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!

I will come again, and I will be millions.

We've learned that project by project, you can't change millions and millions of lives.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of people because of Ali.

Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

I'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware of.

Women today should have the same rights as men. And all citizens should have the right to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment.

If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them hostage.

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.

As female athletes all over the world have discovered the hard way, changing cultures and mindsets takes action.

You know, I think the idea of activism, more so a revolutionary mindset, is something that has been with me for most of my life, especially since I was about 16 years old.

The older I've got, the better my relationship with my body has become, and that's because of my mindset.

I get out in the 'hoods. I want to go to the worst, the grimiest places. That's where I want to be. Those are usually the kids or the communities that kind of get left behind or forgotten about. I feel like I was in that situation at one point. That's where my mindset is and that's what I stand for.

I want to tell such people to grow up and change their mindset when you deal with women.