Quotes About Empowerment

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

I do consider myself part of black history.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

The revolution begins at home.