Quotes About Empowerment

More than 20% of the victims interviewed by Pew did confront their abusers and most reported that doing so improved the situation.

The women—who kept careful tallies—informed the CEO he had interrupted each of them at least six times but never interrupted the four male executive vice presidents. Stunned and embarrassed, the CEO begged for forgiveness, asked them to keep tracking his interruptions, and vowed to halt his sexist ways.

We Rise By Lifting Others

We shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere, to preach the gospel in the regions beyond. – 2 Corinthians 10:15–16

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. – Psalm 107:14

I had rather get ten men to work than to do the work of ten men. —D. L. Moody2

But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. – Mark 9:27

Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away. – Acts 13:3

Our ability to influence the world is directly proportional to our knack for managing our own lives

What I am referring to is the Theory of Next, which states: The key to maintaining a positive mental attitude is to recognize that no one deal is that important. The person with a true positive mental attitude possesses the power to say "Next!" and quickly move on to the next deal when things don't work out.

You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you, I wouldn't exist.

Christ then will be seen as fully African and black, fully one of them and on their side. It is this Christ that will lead the Africans to the achievement of the new earth and the new heaven. For

Perhaps that is why Jesus appeared first to women: they are the ones who most frequently lead acts of reconciliation that can come to make a difference. They are the ambassadors of reconciliation par excellence.

One reason why the human race as a whole has not measured up to its possibilities, to its promise; one reason why we see everywhere splendid ability doing the work of mediocrity, is because people do not think half enough of themselves. We do not realize our divinity; that we are part of the great causation principle of the universe. We do not know our strength and not knowing we can not use it.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

Feminism remains a crucial element of any program for social justice today, which is why patriarchal forces attempt to eliminate or marginalize feminist ideas.

Knowledge may be power, but not without the willingness, and the release from inhibiting mind-sets, to use that knowledge.

A child can do nothing in his weakness. A man can do much.' 

If we do not agree to reduce cruelty and moderate a situation intolerable for human beings," she said, "then they themselves will take things in hand.

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up whatever her ladies-in-waiting happened to be reading. She always kept a book in her room and carried another in her pocket.

I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that your happiness may be independent of all outside events.

Over time, I came to formulate my purpose as providing contexts for people to flourish .

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.