“The third Great Awakening is variously said to have started between the 1860s and 1890; it continued into the early 1900s and… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as… — Julie Bindel Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things -… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“The few and scattered references of freedpeople suffering from the challenges of emancipation have been overlooked because these episodes do not fit… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second,… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“Their [Lacadaemonian] women, it is said, were bold and masculine, overbearing to their husbands in the first place, absolute mistresses in their… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
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