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Quotes About Empowerment

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
~ Alan Watts
As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
~ Andrew Garfield
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
~ Aristotle
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
~ Ben Burtt
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
~ Bernard Baruch
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
~ Bernard Malamud
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
~ Charles Hodge
My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.
~ Dolores Huerta
I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
~ Dusty Baker
You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.
~ George Gilder
I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.
~ Harry Belafonte
How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?
~ Janet Fitch
It is the duty of man to raise up man.
~ Jose Marti
I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!
~ Judy Collins
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
~ Julie Burchill
My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
~ Kevin Hart
I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.
~ Lily Allen
The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?
~ M. Carey Thomas
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.
~ Ne-Yo
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
~ Norman Angell