Emancipation Quotes

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Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. donâ€™t redeem what this particular civilization… — Susan Sontag
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. — Saddam Hussein
...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come… — Mao Zedong
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique… — Bertrand Russell
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained… — Aravind Adiga
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer… — Friedrich Engels
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads,… — Emma Goldman
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. — Christopher Hitchens
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it — B.K.S. Iyengar
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to… — Robert Charles Winthrop
He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where… — Natasha Trethewey
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race,… — Roger B. Taney
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations,… — Melville Fuller
No emancipation without that of society. — Theodor Adorno
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects,… — Henry Charles Carey
Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. — Henry Charles Carey
The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully… — Salmon P. Chase
They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and… — Robert Dale Owen
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. — Rand Paul

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