Quotes About Empowerment

I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.

I am not the victim, and I won't be the victim in football or life.

I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.

It takes courage to come forward, and I don't want any victim of sexual harassment to think twice about doing so.

I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor of hunger, of hate, of different injustices that humans are facing today.

I want to create or be a platform for people who have been labelled as a victim. I'm not going to be their voice; that's their voice. I want to allow people to voice their life beyond labels.

It's easy to fall into victim mode and feel like the world is against you. The truth is, people aren't against you: they're just for themselves. The only thing within your control is how you react and respond to the chaotic dance of life.

My natural state is to be happy. I'm naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, 'What a great morning!' I've had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don't know one human being who hasn't. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It's life, after all.

I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.

Every person has a choice in every situation and I decided not to be a victim of crime and to not allow myself to be crippled with fear. This is why I started Unbreakable. I wanted to teach women the self-defence skills I learnt during a course I participated in.

Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work or people have shown disinterest in working with me because I was unwilling to succumb to this unspoken understanding of patriarchy.

Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.

I think there are lots of those moments when we meet people - listeners at a meet-and-greet - and they tell us that they've changed their major to forensic science, or criminal justice, or they've become a victim's advocate.

I dont want to be a victim, nor be portrayed as one.

Every victim should have the right to tell their own story. Not a tabloid.

I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

There's a greater power and charisma when a woman is aware of her sexual prowess when it's not necessarily about victimization or someone else's pleasure but her own feeling about her own body and understanding and loving herself.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

You can do pretty much anything you want to do in America as a black, including become president. Still, the legacy of our victimization, of our suffering and exclusion from the mainstream of American life, has left its mark.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be a bit victimized, and I don't feel like that's me.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.