Emancipation Quotes · Page 3

No emancipation without that of society.

— Theodor Adorno

“Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.”

— Saul Bellow

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is…

— Alan Paton

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.”

— Bertrand Russell

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

— Francis James Grimke

“Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

— Abraham Lincoln

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what…

— Susan Sontag

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,…

— Will Durant

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they…

— Rand Paul

Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed…

— Linda Colley

The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very…

— Jamelle Bouie

Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated…

— Allen C. Guelzo

In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Even today, regardless of the quarrels women may pick in the cause of emancipation, the reality is that, in the present world…

— Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are…

— John Cage

The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race…

— Emma Goldman

“He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking…

— Ashim Shanker

I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the…

— Culbert Olson

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent,…

— Lucy Stone

Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this…

— Aravind Adiga

“Well then, I'll take a whole heap of that emancipation, Mister Jesse. Yes, sir, a whole heap." -Cyrus A Glimpse Of Freedom”

— M.A. Bookout

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." Frederick Douglas, Address on West India Emancipation 1857”

— Connie Rice

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to…

— David Walker

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

— George Will

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

— Abraham Lincoln

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

— Ziauddin Yousafzai

“The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

— Honore de Balzac

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

— I. F. Stone

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

— Margaret Deland

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

— Rand Paul

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of…

— Kate Millett