Quotes About Empowerment

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.

I hope my work inspires people to speak and to stand up together to make change. Big or small, it doesn't matter.

Being a role model means you can stand up and fight for things.

Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'

My goal is the same as it has always been - to stand up for myself and take back my voice after being bullied and intimidated by President Trump and his minions.

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

A bully is a bully, and it's important that you stand up to them.

I grew up being very different and being ready to fight people. I wanted to stand up for myself, and I wanted to not let anyone think they know me based on appearances, so I was always just fighting back with people.

The truth is, women don't stand up, they're too hushed, they don't like to say stuff.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

As the daughter of a civil rights leader, I believe in the power that compels people to stand up for their freedoms, for justice and opportunity. I know that marching inspires people to take an active role in creating positive change for a better America.

I really wish women of color would come together more and stand up for each other.

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

I will stand up for all of those who feel they can't stand up for themselves.

As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.

I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.

I grew up really being able to stand up to authority.

What can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month? A friend of mine said, 'You know, the fact that you did a really honest book and it changed people's lives, that's something to talk about.'

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

You can't be a feminist in the United States and stand up for the rights of the American woman and then say that you don't want to stand up for the rights of Palestinian women in Palestine. It's all connected.

When I served as a prosecutor, I saw firsthand the many injustices that are embedded in our communities. But I also saw the difference it can make in someone's life when they have someone to stand up and fight for them.