Quotes About Empowerment

You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

All women are inferior to men.

Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.