Quotes about Empowerment

Get up, stand up; stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up; don't give up the fight!

Serving others is the best way of applying our faith in such a way that it leads to real transformation and change.

When we send the whole church to build the church (instead of leaving it to the religious professionals), God's power is unleashed in full force.

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.