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Quotes About Empowerment

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.
~ Malcolm X
If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.
~ Martha McSally
A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.
~ Martha Shelley
Responsiblity is the great developer of men.
~ Mary Parker Follett
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
~ Max Stirner
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.
~ Maya Angelou
British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
~ Natalia Kills
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)
~ Paracelsus
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
~ Pope John Paul II
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
~ O. Henry
Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
~ Robert Kennedy
I am the best male ally I have ever heard of for women and women's liberation.
~ Harvey Jackins
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.
~ Homer Hickam
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
~ Ida Lupino
I had no desire to crash a man's world.
~ Ida Lupino
I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.
~ Jack Kirby
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.
~ James Oppenheim
I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.
~ Jane Fonda
Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
~ Jennifer Aniston