Quotes About Empowerment

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

I am the captain of my soul.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world

Money wont create success, the fredom to make it will

It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, they are capable of changing.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Resentment is a method of self harm. "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.