Quotes About Empowerment

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.

I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.

Myself and the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, but in truth, we are loving women whose life experiences have led us to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.

I have been politically victimized.

It's important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can't be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.

Children especially deserve our support after they are rescued from those who have victimized them.

If actual victims of discrimination had to wait on the NAACP to see them to justice, they would never get help.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.

One of my priorities is giving victims the right to choose different paths to restoration and to healing. It's prioritizing having restitution available for economic harm, having victim services for the trauma and also recognizing that victims are far more than simply pieces of evidence to be used in order to secure a lengthy prison sentence.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don't have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims.

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

The only way to stop gaslighting is to shine the light of reality onto a situation. That makes it imperative for the perpetrator to keep victims in the dark.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.