Quotes About Empowerment

Hold on little girl Show me what he's done to you Stand up little girl A broken heart can't be that bad When it's through, it's through Fate will twist the both of you So come on baby come on over Let me be the one to show you

I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be ... I'm free to be what I want.

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

I sought advice and cooperation from those around me--but not permission.

Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it and I don't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free man -- it means "Beloved of God" -- and I insist people use it in speaking of and to me.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.

When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me is ME.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away. When I first walked into the mosque, I didn't find Islam; it found me.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And ones that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Let not count the days, let the days count.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

The highest stage of Man's ethical progress is reached when he becomes absolutely free from fear and grief.

And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allaah, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed among men, women, and children, whose cry is: "Our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from You one who will protect, and raise for us from You one who will help.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.