Emancipation Quotes

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

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 it may be, is still a land of captivity.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

For me emancipation will only be truly reached if a woman can wear makeup and skirts without having her abilities doubted as a result.

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 nonsense

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control ofthe Southern states.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free

We are only enslaved in our mind.

Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

Emancipation of mind is the greatest liberty.

Ignorance is not bliss its painful and embarrassing

Nothing can enslaved us, if we free in our minds.

I refuse to be put in a cage that gleams golden for many, but bronze for me. I would much rather be a dove in the sky, flying out into the open, into the sky, into the beyond.

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

The only prison we can be is prison of our mind.