Quotes About Empowerment

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.

God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

The one thing I like about the religion is, I'm never at a loss to do something. No matter what happens in my life, there is something for me to do so I don't feel as though I have lost control.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.