The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already… — Nhat Hanh 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
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Hear the heartbeats of a nation silenced together on the impatient winds of change, And deafen your ears to the words of… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex,… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the… — Benjamin B. Ferencz Copy Share Image
“Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.” — Nike Thaddeus Copy Share Image
One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas -… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“legal emancipation remains an empty shell if it does not include public services, social housing, and funding to ensure that women can… — Nancy Fraser Copy Share Image
“By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat?… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them… — John Shelby Spong 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
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I remember on one of my many visits with Thomas A. Edison , I brought up the question of Ingersoll . I… — Joseph Lewis 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