Quotes About Empowerment

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.

I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

For Obama, there was just a lot of enthusiasm in the minority communities to get out and vote. Everybody felt like their vote mattered.

Women are a minority the same way gay people are.

Increasing postsecondary enrollment and success, particularly among first-generation, low-income, and minority students, is good for students and our state's economy.

Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is the core value of our Constitution.

I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability. But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be.

For many young people growing up in minority communities, there is a sense that their lives are disposable. As athletes, we have a platform to let those kids know that their lives are important. That their lives matter to us.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

When I saw Courtney Love in 1994, I knew what I wanted to do. The minute I saw a female-fronted rock n' roll band, that changed my life.

Freedom is a practice and a habit. We have to train ourselves to walk as a free person, sit as a free person, and eat as a free person. We need to train ourselves how to live.

The past is no longer a prison for me. The future is not a prison either. I am able to live in the here and now and

T]he good, the beautiful, and the true are to be found in everyone, but very few people know that. People think that the true, the beautiful, and the good exist somewhere else, in someone else. They don't know that they are true, beautiful, and good at their core.

Thomas Paine said, "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery."1

Stop apologizing! It doesn't help, and it sells the speaker short.

Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves.

Now we know, as she does, that she can carry on, that discovering that men can't be counted on doesn't mean the world ends, that she's a whole person.

Writing well is the best revenge.

Parents are blamed but not trained.

Parents can modify themselves, and reduce the number of behaviors that are unacceptable to them, by coming to see that their children are not their children, not extensions of themselves, but separate, unique. A child has the right to become what he is capable of becoming, no matter how different from the parent or the parent's blueprint for the child. This is his inalienable right.