Quotes About Empowerment

The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback.

I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.

As a flight instructor 30 years ago, I had quite a few female police officers who wanted to be pilots. But the guys would say 'no.' They wanted those jobs to themselves.

We must hire more social workers and counselors in our schools than police officers.

The formerly incarcerated - returning citizens - often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many are banned from the ballot box that could help them dismantle policies that essentially extend their sentences.

Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.

The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand what the issues are.

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

As a high-fashion model, I have long had a policy of no nudity or partial nudity in my photo shoots.

We need to make sure that our policymakers and politicians realize that we are the future of the country, not only by words. We should ask them to invest the right resources for every school, every hospital and every community.

Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, 'Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.' People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.

Levo is Latin for 'to polish' and 'elevate,' and the name is essentially connoting the fact that we are coming together as a community to mutually enhance each other's lives.

I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.

It's crazy that, as women, we are taught to be cute and nice and polite when we should learn to be less nice sometimes.

As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

Senator Michael Bennet and members of the permanent political class have empowered President Obama's policies and their own agendas rather than the needs of constituents.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.