Quotes About Empowerment

I want to change the game and break through the nonsense without any Establishment help.

We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

We need to see examples of empowerment, because when we see that... it seems like that's the norm.

Whether it is crimes against women, whether it's discrimination against women, whether it's just social bias against women - these things should be anomalies; they should not be the norm.

There is no norm that a woman must write a certain kind of script.

The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

I realized I deserve to be happy and have all the things I want in life. It might be scary and outside the norm of what everybody else does, but I need to just go for it.

Let's embrace being not normal!

I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.

I am a normal girl.

It's important that people can be themselves and live a normal life that's not defined by a disability.

I'm a normal woman, a normal person, and I just want to drive.

Guess girls are normally blonde, blue-eyed bombshells. It was nice to be a brunette one.

We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented.

During the day I still go full coverage but I normally go light on the eyes. That said I tend to wear a cat-eye liner look and I never leave the house without my lips on!

I don't follow norms in my life. They don't make sense to me. I do whatever I feel or what makes me happy and feels right.

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in my early 20s, so I never realized that makeup 'wasn't for boys,' as many social norms say.