Quotes about Empowerment

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt

Don't look down on somebody unless you are helping them up.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

never look down on somebody unless you are helping them up

Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up.

T]oday some people continue to view themselves as victims because of the historical suffering of their group and because it is easy and comforting to do so. And this renders happiness virtually impossible. First…perceiving yourself as a victim makes you unhappy. Second, it makes you permanently angry, which further guarantees unhappiness. Third, it enables you to avoid confronting whatever it is that is really making you unhappy.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.