Emancipation Quote by Peter Benenson

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a…

— Barack Obama

In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his…

— Bertrand Russell

Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be…

— Eugene V. Debs

“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”

— Maya Angelou

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond…

— Arshile Gorky

Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan…

— Allen C. Guelzo

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic…

— Melville Fuller

The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt,…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human…

— Bertrand Russell