Quotes About Empowerment

Change yourself – you are in control."

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.

Grasp your own reality and grasp your name and learn how to write your own proof.

Maybe we made her feel safe,' Aaron said. 'So she can be brave.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

It?s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

To be a leader, or the helpmate of a leader, you have to first die as a person, and Mother was mourning for her approaching death as just a simple village woman.