Emancipation Quotes

151 quotes by 127 authors

The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly… — Amos Elon
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.… — Christopher Hitchens
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. — Grace Kelly
Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start. — Ann Coulter
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret. — Alan Paton
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not… — Corrine Brown
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also… — Eugene V. Debs
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. — Karl Marx
And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives,… — Karl Marx
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is… — Alain Badiou
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. — Robert Charles Winthrop
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become a party that… — Rand Paul
Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the… — Gautama Buddha
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as is Nadine Dorries.… — Julie Bindel
Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social… — Kumari Jayawardena
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who… — Susan Jacoby
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only… — Will Durant

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