Quotes About Empowerment

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.