Quotes About Empowerment

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

Ain't nothing a man can't do if he believes in himself.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.