Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom…

As long as you do not feel the serenity in the body, in each and every joint, there is no chance for emancipation. You…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

— Thomas Campbell

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

— Alan Paton

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

— Lucy Stone

The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that…

— George Washington

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

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

— Eugene V. Debs

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

— W. E. B. Du Bois

In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his…

— Bertrand Russell

And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a…

— Barack Obama

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini