Quotes About Empowerment

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

with superb courage, and the decision and intelligence of a man.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

What should I be but just what I am?

Necesitamos, por ello, una persona conocedora de los ambientes menos gratos de nuestra sociedad, cuyo nombre pueda ensuciarse sin perjuicio de nadie, capaz de realizar por nosotros el trabajo y de la que, llegado el momento, podamos desembarazarnos sin empacho.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero

The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

Grown men do not need leaders.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight like men! like women! like human beings! and walk-walk-WALK upon our sweet and blessed land!

There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog. Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk.

Where're your papers?" "My what?" "Your I.D. -- draft card, social security, driver's license." "Don't have none. Don't need none. I already know who I am.

The Machine may seem omnipotent, but it is not. Human bodies and human wit, active here, there, everywhere, united in purpose, independent in action, can still face that machine and stop it and take it apart and reassemble it-if we wish-on lines entirely new. There is, after all, a better way to live.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Freedom begins between the ears.

It is not enough to fill your juries, your advisory panels, with creative artists. You must put us in positions of policy control.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.