Quotes About Empowerment

Trusting our intuition gives us greatest strength and confidence.

We are writing our own Life Story. Every morning we have to just decide and choose to write the best one!

We do not want to rob any one of his coat, but we wish to give to the workers all those things the lack of which makes them fall an easy prey to the exploiter, and we will do our utmost that none shall lack aught, that not a single man shall be forced to sell the strength of his right arm to obtain a bare subsistence for himself and his babes.

No more of such vague formulae as 'The right to work', or 'To each the whole result of his labour'. What we proclaim is the Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!

We have the temerity to declare that all have a right to bread, that there is bread enough for all, and that with this watchword of Bread for All the revolution will triumph.

Give the people a free hand, and in ten days the food service will be conducted with admirable regularity. Only those who have never seen the people hard at work, only those who have passed their lives buried among documents, can doubt it.

What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!

No more of such vague formulae as 'The right to work', or 'To each the whole result of his labour'. What we proclaim is the Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!

No one is free who is not master of himself.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

1. Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. 2. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. 3. As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. 4. The greatest revenge is to accomplish what others say you cannot do.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

Remember that darkness simply requires another way of seeing. Be your own light. And just like that, you'll find yourself everywhere instantly.

We are no one's reflection— we shine in dark places by the light of our own being

Darkness simply requires another way of seeing. Be your own light.

The price for freedom may be high, but the price that we pay for being imprisoned and cut off from the very root of our being is even higher.

The condition of women's wombs also directly reflects the condition of women's minds, spirits, and actions. The womb is a storehouse of all our emotions.

Sacred Woman is a path and journey for inner freedom, a road map to Divinity. It is the road of emancipation, led by the First Mothers of the earth, Afrakan women.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?