Emancipation Quotes
151 quotes by 127 authors
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
— Lord Acton
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination…
— John Adams
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
— Mortimer Adler
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek…
— Steven Biko
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
— Tori Amos
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man…
— Christopher Hitchens
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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization,…
— Culbert Olson
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th…
— Aberjhani
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The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill…
— Aberjhani
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state…
— George Washington
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To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this…
— Bertrand Russell
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Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been…
— Horace Porter
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
— Victoria Woodhull
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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new…
— Henrik Ibsen
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Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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