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Quotes About Empowerment

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.
~ Nick Offerman
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.
~ John F. Kennedy
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
~ Walter Lippmann
A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.
~ Joe Frazier
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
~ Charles Erwin Wilson
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
~ Frederick Douglass
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
~ Madonna Ciccone
If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
~ Edna Ferber
It's better to build boys than mend men.
~ S. Truett Cathy
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."
~ John W. Gardner
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.
~ Jeff Cooper
We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.
~ Michael Kimmel
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.
~ Oscar Micheaux
To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.
~ Judy Chicago
[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!
~ Nancy Astor
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
~ Desmond Tutu
Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.
~ Snoop Dogg
The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.
~ Dennis Rainey
A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
~ Malcolm X
A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.
~ Bruce Lee
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
~ Thomas Jefferson