Quotes About Empowerment

Fight for what you believe in, speak your mind, and don't be afraid.

Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.

You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.

I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.

Boxing is for the poor man. A lot of people don't know what's going on, but I've been able to see it first-hand, and if I can speak out on the behalf of fighters going through problems, I will, because... it's important to create awareness. Everyone should speak up. Because if people are aware, maybe there can be change.

I'm a motivational speaker.

I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.

I intend to be a strong Speaker. I hope to make some imaginative changes around here.

I never thought that being a public speaker would teach me so much about life and make it so beautiful as well.

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with sign language, but the average person doesn't know that language. SixthSense, if equipped with speakers, can recognize the gestures and form the words - it will speak for him.

Luckily, my father and my mother liked us to talk, so they encouraged us to talk, so that the girls in my house, they're all very powerful speakers and powerful agents of their own will, as is my brother.

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person.

More people are speaking out about... well, everything. And that kind of gave us the confidence to feel like we could speak out a bit more about things.

As a gay person, I'm used to speaking on gay issues. As a black person, I'm used to speaking on black issues.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down... I'm not going to go anywhere.