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Quotes About Empowerment

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
~ Sojourner Truth
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
~ Saint Augustine
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.
~ Stuart Pearce
For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.
~ Neville Goddard
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
~ Immanuel Kant
The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son
~ Judy Collins
The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.
~ Eric Holder
Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.
~ Eminem
When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.
~ Nannie Helen Burroughs
The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
~ Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.
~ Jimmy Reid
I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?
~ Phyllis Diller
You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.
~ Patrick Stewart
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
~ Gloria Steinem
God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.
~ Myles Munroe
If men had more up top we'd need less up front
~ Jaci Stephen
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
~ Candace Bushnell
A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
~ Epicurus
Women's fashion is more interesting than men's.
~ Nick Rhodes
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.
~ Louis C. K.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
~ Pythagoras
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
~ William J. H. Boetcker