Quotes about Empowerment

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Cast down your bucket where you are.

In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday-schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate the Negro at so rapid a rate.

In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading.

It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.

There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But, on the whole, every individual and every race must work out its own salvation.