The Power of Words: Women's History Month
- Servant Leaders Institute
- Mar 15
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 15
Servant Leaders Institute recognizes the power of words when spoken by women. With our words, we can spark change. When put into action and practiced consistently, our words can make a powerful impact and chart the course of history. As you live, work, rest, serve, elevate, love, etc., reflect upon these words in honor of Women’s History Month.
In sisterhood,
Miriam
Defining yourself
“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
-Michelle Obama
Fighting for justice
“To those fighting for justice, keep pushing. Don’t ever give up. Strategize, pull others in. You can’t do it by yourself.”
-Myrlie Evers
Lighting the way and changing systems
“Give light and people will find the way.”
“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.”
- Ella Baker
The potential of small towns
“To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they are going.”
-Unita Blackwell
Persistence when writing
“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
- Octvavia Butler
Humanitarian work
“There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.”
- Meghan Sussex
Self-acceptance
“When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.”
-Beyonce
Possibilites
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Faith and action
“You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.”
-Fannie Lou Hamer
The distraction
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
-Toni Morrison
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