Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation. — Andre Gide 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
“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of… — Kate Millett 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
“Many of my proposals are aimed at freeing humans so they can discover and pursue their personal interests and purpose, while existing… — Albert Wenger 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
We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance… — Germaine Greer 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
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
... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We need to reflect with great seriousness about why many young people don't feel like getting married... For fear of failure, many… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As long as you do not feel the serenity in the body, in each and every joint, there is no chance for… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. — Khaled Hosseini 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
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'. — Peter Benenson 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
Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. — Henry Charles Carey 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
“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.” — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant 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
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 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
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image