Quotes About Empowerment

Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.