The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby 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
“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
The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
“If freedom once required a secular critique of religion, it can also require a religious critique of the secular.” — Harvey Cox 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
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
I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
“To make our emancipation actual will require both our political mobilizations and our rational arguments; it will require our general strikes and… — Martin Hägglund Copy Share Image
“These women have what [Emma] Goldman calls “external emancipation” - they have the job, the home, and the child. But larger forces… — Rosanna Hertz 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