Quotes About Empowerment

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Meditó durante la hora de Reafirmación de Género para Mujeres Maduras, ninguna de las cuales necesitaba que le enseñaran a reafirmarse a sí misma. De hecho se reafirmaban tan estupendamente que lo único que tenía que hacer Wilt era dejar que hablaran.

If you own yourself, you own the world.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.

The growth of literacy was sparking an awakening – welcome to some, dreadful to others – across the slave-empire of Jamaica. Reading seemed to ignite a hidden store of fuel within an enslaved person.

For enslaved people who had spent their entire lives under the shadow of the whip, without any military training of experience with guns, to one day pick up a firearm or a machete or even a rock and oppose a superior force must have taken an extraordinary level of nerve. The thirst for liberty was powerful enough to overcome even the fear of probable death.

Tož demokracii bychom už m?li, te? ješt? n?jaké ty demokraty.

We had to be seen because we couldn't be heard.

Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass!

Victims don't have to take action; they're too busy dwelling on injustice and being bitter. Remember,

What I did, I did on my own. Don't mourn me. Be joyful.

I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we?

Look. What use is there pretending to be what you are not? You and me and your little brother, we're the only three Indians in a school filled with two thousand white middle-class kids. We can't let them walk all over us.

Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so's you're sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you're well.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation." ? Toni Cade Bambara, born #OTD in 1939

anything is possible with the right tools and good friends

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.