You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
“The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.” — Pierre-Jospeh Proudhon Copy Share Image
“The discourse of work as pure emancipation depends on blocking out class and age constantly.” — Nina Power Copy Share Image
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without… — Robert Charles Winthrop 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
“Why would you want to join a club that does not want you as a member? If a club does not want… — Jesaja Senones 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
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world,… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The liberation of women has brought a lot of equality to the man, in the emancipation of the man as a bulldog;… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In… — Shelby Foote 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 demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“What saddened and incensed her was the abdication of power, so craven, the surrender so close to home. And power was what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation. — Thomas Jefferson 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
We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me emancipation will only be truly reached if a woman can wear makeup and skirts without having her abilities doubted as… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT… — Anton Szandor LaVey 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
I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken. — Isabelle Kocher 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