Quotes about Empowerment
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.
— John F. Kennedy
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
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
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
— Andrew Carnegie
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
— Abraham Lincoln
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
— John Quincy Adams
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
— George Eliot
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
— Booker T. Washington
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
— Walt Whitman
Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
— Viktor E. Frankl