Quotes About Empowerment

No one survived on the streets without a protective mask. No one survived naked. You had to have a role. You had to be "thug," "playa," "athlete," "gangsta," or "dope man." Otherwise, there was only one role left to you: "victim.

Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!

If you knock even the most hateful human being, you will come out of the encounter looking less than heroic. People almost always side with the one being attacked.

You may not have been in control of your past, but you are in control of your future. And it's time to move forward.

Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.

For the workers under scrutiny, mental stimulation is dulled, they decide neither the problems to be solved nor how to solve them, and there is no excitement of venturing into the unknown because the unknown is beyond the measureable.

If you want to help someone in a bad situation, you need to give them the opportunity to work their way out of it.

Hildie caught a glimpse of herself in the water-spotted mirror, pulled her long black shirt down over her leggings. She trusted her body. It was strong and generous and marked by joy. Occasionally, she'd feel eyes on her, a man on the SkyTrain, judging her. But whatever he felt was his business. Also, she could manifest a spear from thin air, so men's opinions weren't really her problem.

in the future, you might not want to wear so much makeup. You don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention." Maureen's shoulders tightened. "Why don't you tell them to stop looking instead of us to stop shining?

Pain isn't a competition. You have a right to the feelings in your heart. I just don't want to see you drown in them.

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

Thoughts determine the person......What you think is what you are...........Thoughts awaken feelings....When you speak that thought-----It Comes Alive.....YOU HAVE TO HAVE THOUGHT CONTROL.....NEVER FORGET IT.

You really can do all things through Christ who gives you strength—and He will give you strength.

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Don't look down on somebody unless you are helping them up.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

never look down on somebody unless you are helping them up

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Never look down on people unless you are helping them up.

you may not be responsible for being down. but you are respinsible for getting up.