Emancipation Quotes

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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally… — John Dewey
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation. — Andre Gide
As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere,… — Ian Fleming
Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their… — John Cage
All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol… — Theodore Parker
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W. E. B. Du Bois
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of… — Roberto Unger
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation… — Abe Fortas
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the… — Lucy Stone
We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women — Yip Harburg
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though… — Lyman Abbott
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is… — John Dewey
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now… — John Quincy Adams
Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or… — George Steiner
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if… — Emma Goldman
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been… — Barry Goldwater
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation. — Pam Grier
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about… — Salvador Dali

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