Quotes about Empowerment

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.

We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective.

Bullying is a topic that's been close to my heart for a while.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

I am the servant of all great individuals and, alas, of all failures, as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures.

Proactive people make choices based on values. They think before they act. They recognize they cannot control everything that happens to them, but they can control what they do about it.

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.