Quotes about Empowerment

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

That… man… says women can't have as much rights as man, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from?… From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right again.

If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.

We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here.

Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.

her unwavering confidence in an arm which she believed to be stronger than all others combined could have raised from her sinking spirit.

If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women togedder (and she glanced her eye over the platform) ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now dey is asking to do it, de men better let 'em.