Quotes about Empowerment

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.

A change happens because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or time. We are the ones we've been waiting for change we seek.

Still, in the aggregate, at least, I wanted somehow to save them—send them to school, give them a trade, drain them of the hate that had been filling their heads.

Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.