Emancipation Quotes · Page 3

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

— Emma Goldman

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

— Francis James Grimke

“Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Well then, I'll take a whole heap of that emancipation, Mister Jesse. Yes, sir, a whole heap." -Cyrus A Glimpse Of Freedom”

— M.A. Bookout

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.”

— Anonymous

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

— Karl Marx

“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Eugene V. Debs

“All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them:…

— Tolstoy L

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

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of…

— Frederick Douglass

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

— George Washington

“In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear,…

— B.G. Bowers

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate…

— Aberjhani

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to…

— Theodore Hesburgh

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both…

— Ian Fleming

Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, He had conferred on my beloved country in her…

— Charles Carroll of Carrollton

“Even today, regardless of the quarrels women may pick in the cause of emancipation, the reality is that, in the present world…

— Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

“that the greatest happiness lies in living for others. The self and its appetites, the satisfaction of which only yields deeper hungers,…

— Philip Caputo

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are…

— John Cage

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract…

— Abraham Lincoln

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every…

— Bertrand Russell

“The system really didn't care about your 'emancipation' unless it could sell it back to you for a profit.”

— Fifty Shades of Feminism

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

— Harriet Martineau

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

“Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.”

— Saul Bellow

“Emancipation Proclamation, which gave federal legal status to slaves, was in fact an executive order. And,”

— Bobby Akart

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

— Ann Coulter

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and…

— Rand Paul

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already…

— Nhat Hanh

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

— Amelia Bloomer

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson