Quotes About Empowerment

If you keep people down so they dont become better than you, you gotta stay there to keep them down so you dont progress yourself. What kind of wahala (Suffering) is that ? Leave them to progress so you can expand.

The greatest act of leadership is mentoring. No matter how much you may learn, achieve, accumulate, or accomplish, if it all dies with you, then you are a generational failure.

The people most successful at both giving and receiving love are not the ones who walk around degrading and bad-mouthing themselves all the time, but those who are fully in love with themselves and fully aware that they are loved by God. Because they are at peace within themselves about themselves, they are free both to give love and to allow others to love them.

There is truly no greater burden than freedom, no heavier load than liberty.

The use of means ought not to lessen our faith in God, and our faith in God ought not to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the accomplishment of His own purposes. —Hudson Taylor

belief creates your life, and that's what faith is: believing things that you haven't yet seen to the point that you act on them until they come into being. It is through faith that people experience personal growth and success.

God created everything with potential.

To maximize your life you must declare independence from the opinions of others.

When facing one indignant male colleague after another who demanded how she could be both a member of Congress and a mother, she said, "Because I have a brain and a uterus and both work.

When Pat Schroeder, a Harvard Law graduate, ran for office in 1972, the headlines read "Housewife" or "Mother" runs for Congress. When facing one indignant male colleague after another who demanded how she could be both a member of Congress and a mother, she said, "Because I have a brain and a uterus and both work.

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.

So that's why he came to Memphis—"to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black. I come to state that I'm a man, free to think for myself and do as I please.… I will not be consigned the unquestioned opinions of others.

Our local communities, once vibrantly self-governing, have lost vital autonomy, as the Court has hemmed in their ability to police themselves and regulate their schools, all in the name of atoning for America's original sin of slavery but in fact harming black Americans more than helping them.

Have you ever seen a man carry a burden when there were woman's shoulders near enough to shift it to?

Public health care [in India] runs on the ASHA worker, not the doctor. We knew we had to design something which she could use.

Women, you are of great strength and support to the men in your lives, and they sometimes need your help most when they are least deserving. A man can have no greater incentive, no greater hope, no greater strength than to know his mother, his sweetheart, or his wife has confidence in him and loves him. And men should strive every day to live worthy of that love and confidence.

I always thought education was learning to think for yourself

When you live in reaction you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.

she had faith in herself.

Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.

Only those who have never known slavery wonder at what others will do to escape it.

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us calls "myself.

Forgiveness isn't weakness. It was and is a great strength.