Quotes About Empowerment

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

National sovereignty can only be achieved after self-sovereignty.

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.

As a manager, you have to sow a seed of imagination in your players.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Be exactly who you are. You can fit in any space you see yourself in. Be fearless.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

Grass-roots clubs and organisations were the places growing up where I found solace. It's important that young people have that space and time to realise their potential.

It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many people are denied the most basic human rights.

We need to afford people from minority groups and marginalized communities the chance to inhabit spaces they're often held out of because of stereotyping.

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and personally, through access to plentiful, diverse communications spaces.

Movies have always been spaces of refuge for me. For a few harmonious hours, I could escape my reality of being a girl living on the margins.

The 'safe spaces' for minority students on university campuses are actually redemptive spaces for white students and administrators looking for innocence and empowerment.

Queer clubs are safe spaces because no one's judging you for what the rest of the world is judging you for there.

Growing up, I never ever thought that I would or could or should be involved in politics. I didn't see anyone who looked like me in spaces of power.

All of these really strong females making names for themselves in what were traditionally male-dominated spaces. And I'm not usually one to get too hung up on the male-vs.-female side of things, but it is interesting to see the dynamic shifting and it's happening across the board. It's cool to be a part of that.

I perform in spaces that are very inclusive and protective.

I think there frankly needs to be diverse spaces and voices as communicators. Women, certainly, but beyond that.

I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.

I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.

You look beautiful in your best self.

Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,