Quotes About Empowerment

Art morphs with what's going on in the world. We say 'Ferguson'; we don't say 'Mike Brown.' Just like we say 'Selma,' not 'Jimmie Lee Jackson.' There is something startling about the people in a particular place, a city or a small town, rising up and taking to the streets.

We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve our access to housing, education, employment and gender-confirming healthcare.

From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos are not becoming local leaders and responsible politicians.

We all have responsibility to stop violence and discrimination against women, whether it's in our businesses, in our homes, or on our streets.

Save money; never rely on other people to lend you money. We call it having 'walking the streets' money - money in your back pocket or bank account that belongs to you.

My dream is to get the young people off the streets, to make it possible for them to play football in the stadium instead.

I guess that people can't imagine three girls just getting up off the streets and making a career for themselves without someone to help them - which is what we did.

I'm happy that kids are getting off the streets and making their families proud.

Be in no doubt: we are completely committed to make sure we support young people with the additional resources that are necessary to give them the alternatives to the offer that's put forward by the terrible criminals on the streets.

As long as I can keep one child off the streets or change one child's life for the better, then that's enough for me.

Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.

Israel will do all in its power to ensure that from Paris to Jacksonville, from Berlin to Manchester, Jews can walk on the streets without hiding their identity.

But I think my dad's academy is one of the best. The first reason he does it is to take people away from the streets and doing all the wrong stuff and for those kids to learn a range of skills.

I am seeing youts getting off the street. They talk about drill and its influence and how it's bad blah, blah, blah, but all I'm seeing is it's getting youts off the streets.

We have so much work to do to meet the challenges of people living on our streets. But every day we are out there doing the work, finding solutions not only to help those living on our streets, but to prevent more people from ending up there in the future.

People say if you're being bullied don't go online. But we don't tell a women not to walk the streets.

Your mom's working 9 to 5 every day and might get a second job. So you're really raising yourself, and you've got nobody else, so you go outside, and the streets raised most of us.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

The scars in my face are the source of my strength.