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
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins,… — Lyndon B Johnson Copy Share Image
"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as… — Julie Bindel Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for… — Horace Porter Copy Share Image
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“The standard of emancipation is now unfurled . . . I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it… — Sylvia Townsend Warner 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 always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“legal emancipation remains an empty shell if it does not include public services, social housing, and funding to ensure that women can… — Nancy Fraser Copy Share Image
My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America,… — John Tyler 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
Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the… — John Sergeant Wise 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
As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields… — Jo Baker 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
Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of… — Dayananda Saraswati 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 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