Quotes about Empowerment
We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
— Barack Obama
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.
— Barack Obama
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.
— Barack Obama
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.
— Barack Obama
When we've been told we're not ready," I said, "or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.
— Barack Obama
Ultimately it was rap that got my head in the right place, two songs especially: Jay-Z's "My 1st Song" and Eminem's "Lose Yourself.
— Barack Obama
Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices ...Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
— Barbara Kingsolver
You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.
— Barbara Kingsolver