Quotes about Empowerment

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

While you have strong frames and robust constitutions, you have not the gift of intellect—you could not think for yourselves—you could not provide for yourselves—so the Lord in his infinite goodness has given you kind masters to think for you—[laughter].

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The more you are led by God's love, the more you become yourself and it is all done without ever losing your freedom.

It meant nothing to teach men to be good unless He also gave them the power to be good

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.