Quotes About Empowerment

Let the priests tremble, we're going to show them our sexts!

Puedes estar seguro, Alfredo, que si hay una cosa en nuestra época que se revela como un decreto de Dios, es que las masas han de levantarse y ocupar el puesto superior las clases inferiores.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Resist telling people how something should be done. Instead, tell them what needs to be done. They will often surprise you with creative solutions.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Set aside your dreams for your children and help them attain their own dreams.

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

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in 1969, I still regard Jesus Christ today as the chief focus of my perspective on God but not to the exclusion of other religious perspectives. God's reality is not bound by one manifestation of the divine in Jesus but can be found wherever people are being empowered to fight for freedom. Life-giving power for the poor and the oppressed is the primary criterion that we must use to judge the adequacy of our theology, not abstract concepts.

My message to blacks was: "It is time to stop hating who you are. God created you black—love yourself, love your hands and face, big nose and lips, for that is the only way you can love God. Blackness is God's gift to humanity.

Only the oppressed can receive liberating visions in wretched places. Only those thinking emerges in the context of the struggle against injustice can see God's freedom breaking into unfree conditions and thus granting power to the powerless to fight here and now for the freedom they know to be theirs in Jesus' cross and resurrection

Black Power, in short, is an attitude, an inward affirmation of the essential worth of blackness. It means that the black man will not be poisoned by the stereotypes that others have of him, but will affirm from the depth of his soul : Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone. 16 And if the white man challenges my humanity, I will impose my whole weight as a man on his life and show him that I am not that `sho good eatin' that he persists in imagining.

They shouted, danced, clapped their hands and stomped their feet as they bore witness to the power of Jesus' cross which had given them an identity far more meaningful than the harm that white supremacy could do them.

To be black means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are."6 To become black is like what Jesus told Nicodemus, that he must be "born again," that is, "born of water and Spirit" (John 3), the Black Spirit of liberation.

I was black before I was a Christian. Martin and Malcolm, therefore, had to go together, which meant being unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian.

One of them was my father. He did not train aristocrats to govern the Empire or plutocrats to run their fathers' businesses, but he employed his wise and sweetening influence just as valuably among the thousands of elementary schoolboys who knew and know him still in a London suburb.

If you have to hurt other people in order to feel powerful, you are an extremely weak individual.

look again into your heart, see that you're more beautiful than you ever were before!

Find strength and shine your brightest, and be who you truly are.

look again into your heart. See that you're more beautiful than you ever were before!

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, so let me live my life the way I want to.

I am not what has happen to me. I am what I choose to be.