Quotes About Empowerment

If you don't learn to feed yourself, you wind up dumpster diving for someone else's leftovers.

The living water passages tell us we become vessels for God to pour himself into so we can pour him into others.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

a mantra she attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: women in politics, she said, "need to develop skin as tough as a rhinoceros hide.

Children walking out on strike from textile mills in New Jersey in the 1840s, shoemakers doing the same in New England, the Black Panthers and other dissidents of color challenging white supremacist exploitation in the 1960s and 1970s—for all their differences, these share in being viewed and treated as "social dynamite.

Such groups are often forced to live on the edge of social legality and, even when engaged in fully legal behavior, they are presented and hunted as criminals. Such has been the fate of groups like the Young Lords, and, again, the Black Panther Party, as well as "gangs" in the poor communities of Los Angeles and Chicago, for example, whose offenses were often mixed with programs aiming at social renewal and liberation.

American slaves and their descendants have taken the texts of the bible in every sense of the word: embraced them, endured them, seized them, stolen them, caught them and captured them. Allen Dwight Callahan, The Talking Book

People today are lifting up their cries and forging new actions from an oppressive regime in our day. At

give people a tool, and they'll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they'll code for a lifetime. This

Solitude is different from loneliness. Solitude is rich, inspiring, and restful; replete with space and possibility. Loneliness is empty, pathetic, and enervating; bereft of power and potential. Lonely people expect others to fill their inner void, whereas lovers of solitude—which is what I invite you to become on this journey—recognize that time alone is precious, a refuge where you can practice meeting yourself in the mirror of the blank page.

Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

The best leaders don't blame others. They own their actions and their outcomes.

First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do—that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written—it is written by leaders.

title doesn't make someone a leader—and the absence of a title shouldn't keep someone from leading.

contrary to conventional leadership in which the leader's focus is on himself and what he can accomplish and achieve. Rather, the focus is on those being served. Servant leaders do many of the same things other leaders do—cast vision, build teams, allocate resources, and so on. The big difference is their orientation and their motivation; these make all the difference in the world. They possess an others-first mindset. The servant leader constantly works to help others win.

Don't confuse opportunity with leadership. Others control many of our opportunities, so that shouldn't be our concern. We control our readiness.

You can lead, with or without, a title. If you wait until you get a title, you could wait forever.

My challenge to you: Get ready to lead and opportunities to lead will not be your problem.

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves. The good news is that people generally rise to the level of expectations placed on them.

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."-Mark Miller

The most important thing you can do to increase your effectiveness with middle schoolers is to deepen your connection to God.

The Democratic Party seeks to empower itself by breaching constitutional firewalls; skirting if not eradicating rules, traditions, and customs; adopting Marx's language of class warfare; and aligning with certain avowedly Marxist groups and ideological causes, among other things. Moreover, it is using the instrumentalities of the government for its political empowerment and purposes.

wrote what is considered by radical activists a seminal essay in the far-left Nation, entitled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty," focused on race and poverty. They bluntly stated their intention: "It is our purpose to advance a strategy which affords the basis for a convergence of civil rights organizations,

You can get CUT UP, DRESSED UP, MADE UP, DRUGGED UP, but at the end of the day you are the MAN or WOMAN God made you.