Quotes About Empowerment

Black History Month is an annual opportunity to recognize the central role of African Americans in our state's economic, cultural, social and political history.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.

We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it.

The barriers for women across the world are different, depending on which kind of political system you live under.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.

When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.

I was raised in a home where we grew up where we discussed issues. I've always been really politically aware. My wife and four kids are very aware. They make me more attuned to a lot of things I would not think about. Especially women's issues.

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

As a black member of parliament and minister for nearly a decade, I was determined not to be defined by my race. I didn't want to be 'the black politician', when being black is just a part of who I am.