Emancipation Quotes · Page 4

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve…

— Petra Kelly

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

— Khaled Hosseini

“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and…

— Annie Lennox

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

— Peter Benenson

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

— Simone de Beauvoir

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

— Thomas Huxley

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents…

— Susan Jacoby

Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,…

— Rafael Cruz

The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was…

— Laurent Dubois

Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is…

— Slavoj Žižek

Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by…

— Eugene V. Debs

All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which…

— Theodore Parker

The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest…

— Eliphas Levi

“All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them:…

— Tolstoy L

Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the…

— Masao Abe

“I do not have to tell you there has been a disappointing retreat of progress in recent times, whatever it is we…

— Bernard Malamud

Let us build our own political machine. You've been in the Democratic Party, you got nothing. We were Republicans at one time,…

— Louis Farrakhan

Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be…

— Linji Yixuan

I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy…

— Thomas Huxley

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with…

— Felicity Jones

To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while…

— Ruth Stout

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And…

— Rose Macaulay

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

— Henry Charles Carey

true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and…

— Emma Goldman

“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.”

— Germaine Greer

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me emancipation will only be truly reached if a woman can wear makeup and skirts without having her abilities doubted as…

— Kristina Schroder

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

— Angela Davis

It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

“Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.”

— Nike Thaddeus

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

— Emma Goldman

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a…

— Emily Procter

The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.

— Isabelle Kocher

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be…

— Zach Braff

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

— Andre Gide

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex,…

— Ernestine Rose

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

— Carter G. Woodson

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

— Anonymous