Quotes About Empowerment

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

You got nobody in this life to look out for you except yourself.

She wasn't ever going to let anyone make her feel like that again. She would not allow bitterness and regret to poison her life any longer.

Giving in to bullies just encouraged them. Bullies needed to be stood up to.

God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 2 TIMOTHY 1:7

The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. HABAKKUK 3:19

I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. REVELATION 3:8

Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day. 2 TIMOTHY 1:12

Miracles could become experiences that people, armed with right understanding, could summon themselves, for themselves.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no tidemark: there was no more dirt to rub away. He took a deep breath and shivered. He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch--and now he was David, his own master, free--free as long as he could remain so.

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow than use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

That women talked back in a time when they were increasingly expected to be submissive is a point to which we shall return.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

She thought back to what Roman had said. That the power rested in her lap. The problem was that internalizing that revelation also meant decisions could no longer be pushed aside.

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.