James Welch Quotes

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I don't need government to be successful.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I am as independent as I want to be, same as Catherine and Harry. We've all grown up differently to other generations and I very much feel if that I can do it myself, I want to do it myself.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Unless men are taught to rely upon themselves they can never be truly worthy of the name of freemen.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

The people are their own liberators.

In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

I'm all about owning your life.

I can look after myself and my own.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

It is only by giving people the tools to empower themselves will they be able to achieve their potential.