Quotes About Empowerment

Universal human rights is the most precious jewel of humanity. Most of it is buried in the mud. It is our responsibility to uncover it and make a safe and beautiful world free from discriminations and inequalities.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Complaining is a form of taking.

Black illiteracy decreased to 16.4 percent in 1930, from 45 percent in 1900. Fewer black babies died at birth—by half. Black life expectancy was rising. Most important, blacks were able to find work at about the same rates whites did. Data from the 1930 census would show black unemployment nationally standing slightly below white unemployment.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness.

Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

The body of Christ has no arms and feet, but ours. In other words, God needs us as much as we need God.

When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.

People," he said. "They can't be underestimated.

We were determined to be the people we wanted to be and not the blind, desperate people we were.

my mother must have said to me a hundred times that men needed to be handled right and a woman who couldn't handle her man had only herself to blame.

Hierarchy (or, more specifically, the fear it creates when not handled well) reduces psychological safety.

Leadership at its core is about harnessing others' efforts to achieve something no one can achieve alone.

Sullenberger later wrote about [air traffic controller] Harten, "his words let me know that he understood that these hard choices were mine to make, and it wasn't going to help if he tried to dictate a plan to me.

What I hope is clear at this point is that you don't have to be the boss to be a leader. The leader's job is to create and nurture the culture we all need to do our best work. And so anytime you play a role in doing that, you are exercising leadership.

Speaking up is only the first step. The true test is how leaders respond when people actually do speak up. Stage setting and inviting participation indeed build psychological safety. But if a boss responds with anger or disdain as soon as someone steps forward to speak up about a problem, the safety will quickly evaporate. A productive response must be appreciative, respectful, and offer a path forward.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.

More and more people are saying 'no' to government lies, corporate greed, and a slavish media. The silenced majority is finding its voice.

Only when the media shines a spotlight can people know and decide whether to act.

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death! A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany

Then, once we are able to see the image of God in our neighbors, once we recognize their inherent value, we strive to help them become who they were meant to be.

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.