Quotes About Empowerment

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

And when and Eve submitted unto Satan they are the ones that empowered Satan. In a sense Man made Satan. God created Lucifer but Man made Satan.

White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.