Quotes About Empowerment

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

Equality in education is my number one battle.

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

You survived the abuse, you're going to survive the recovery.

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

I feel lucky... I have tremendous support so I've never felt alone.

Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear.

Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.