Quotes About Empowerment

Each of you is a daughter of God. Reflect on all the wondrous meaning of that one paramount fact.

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

Our theology and experience of the Spirit must be more interwoven if our experienced life of the Spirit is to be more effective.

Heroines did not pick their own battles—the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.

You're either an agent of change, or a victim of it

illuminated where I stood so I could better see myself and the world around me, and then he took that light and held it out so I could see the footholds and ledges I would need to reclaim a productive life.

God picks the weakest, the smallest, the meanest of men on the face of the earth, and he uses them." There's

number of people, throws the problem their way, and says, "Don't bother me again until you have a solution." That's a tiger team. Get what I'm saying?

If you are in a position of power and want to lead well, remember: Allow those you lead... To lead... when they feel the need. All will benefit.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you.

When I get mad, I stop being mad and be awesome instead.

Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment.

Having worked with at risk youth... I noticed that when I was intentionally positive by looking beyond their "fog" and to their light they responded with their genius.

How can something bother you if you won't let it?

If you feel beautiful, then you are. Even if you don't, you still are.

Draft beer, not people.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

Come, clear the way, then, clear the way: Blind creeds and kings have had their day. Break the dead branches from the path: Our hope is in the aftermath... Make way for Brotherhood—make way for Man.

Be a cupcake in a world of muffins.

Clutch some hope from fear — read banned books.

The challenges we face are far too big to be solved by a few chosen people. It's all of our jobs to work for each other now. To believe in our own efficacy to help our communities. Not to solve the problems of the world, but to help the people around us in any and every way we can. That feels right to me.