Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is…

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

— Barack Obama

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

— William Graham Sumner

Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

— Khalil Gibran

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to…

— Henry David Thoreau

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness,…

— Charles Spurgeon

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from…

— Albert Einstein

The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets,…

— Gautama Buddha

I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented…

— Dan Mazer

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

— Voltaire

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong