Quotes About Empowerment

A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.

Capricorn: "If you don't like me, that's your problem not mine."

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"Women's rights will not go back to the Dark Side!" —Ruth Vader Ginsburg

It was exhilarating to help bring down the barriers that, in Justice Brennan's words, put women less "on a pedestal" than "in a cage." So much has changed for the better since then. True, we have not reached Nirvana, but the progress I have seen in my lifetime makes me optimistic for the future. Our communities, nation, and world will be increasingly improved as women achieve their rightful place in all fields of human endeavor.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime flourishing in the face of adversity before being appointed a Supreme Court justice, where she successfully fought against gender discrimination and unified the liberal block of the court.

We should emphasize not Negro History but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, "We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision I have finally been included in "We, the people."

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement. One elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."

Vote like your rights depend on it — they do.

The right to vote is the fundamental citizenship right that protects all other rights.

Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.

Shape tomorrow by voting today.

Make no mistake, here in our time, it's more important than ever that we show up to vote, not just this year, but every year and in every election. Every voice must be heard and every vote must be counted.

Your vote is your voice.

Vote like you understand that someone died for your right to do so.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

Martin Luther King represents a voice, a vision, and a way... I am convinced that the whole future of America depends on how seriously we take this voice, this vision, and this way.

Apathy among the Negroes themselves is also a factor. Even where polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

A partner is someone who makes you more than you are, simply by being by your side.

The two most empowering words in the English language are: I choose.