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
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to… — David Walker Copy Share Image
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation. — Margaret Deland 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
“Modern Slavery is the lack of emancipation from Mental Slavery.” — Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai Copy Share Image
The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance,… — Saddam Hussein 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 first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live,… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
