Quotes About Emancipation

We still have slavery of all kinds - slavery of thought, slavery of ideas, slavery of cultureand I think 'Roots' exemplifies, in a very strong way, man's need to think for himself, feel for himself, do for himself.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

When Socialists declare that a society, emancipated from Capital, would make work agreeable, and would suppress all repugnant and unhealthy drudgery, they get laughed at. And yet even to-day we can see the striking progress made in this direction; and wherever this progress has been achieved, employers congratulate themselves on the economy of energy obtained thereby.

The critical issue on the journey with God is not "Am I happy?" but "Am I free?

I buddhismen derimod er kaldet lig med frihed for afhængighed, altså også frihed for menneskene, som elsker os eller ikke elsker os.

At give afkald på for sen forældrekærlighed er den eneste mulighed for at løse sig fra forbandelsen. Ordet 'afkald' kan føre til den falske antagelse, at denne nødvendige proces kan klares som en viljessag alene. Men sådan er det ikke.

El miedo es la posibilidad de ganar la libertad.

Fear is the possibility of freedom.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

that the greatest happiness lies in living for others. The self and its appetites, the satisfaction of which only yields deeper hungers, are to the soul as mooring cables to an airship. To cut them willingly and without regret is to know true emancipation, the kind that cannot be granted by constitutions, proclamations, manifestos. Yes

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well.

Por fin se había liberado de las ataduras, emancipado del mundo opresivo formado por sus padres y los que eran iguales que ellos, un mundo hecho de abstracciones, seguridad y bienestar material, un mundo en el que sentía como una dolorosa amputación la ausencia del latir puro y salvaje de la existencia. Al

Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass: Their voices, articulating the feelings of innumerable others, ultimately prevailed in the causes of emancipation and of suffrage.

Your race are suffering, in my judgment, the greatest wrong inflicted on any people," Lincoln told a delegation of blacks in August 1862. "But even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race….I

I always consider the settlement of America with Reverence and Wonder," John Adams wrote in 1765, "as the Opening of a grand scene and Design in Providence, for the Illumination of the Ignorant and the Emancipation of the slavish Part of Mankind all over the Earth.

while Abraham Lincoln saved for you a country, he delivered us from a bondage.

I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn't come back

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

Cuanto más te muestre de mí y más te escuche, más voy a saber de mí. Y cuanto más sepa de mí, de mejores maneras voy a estar a cargo de mi persona. Y cuanto mejor esté a cargo de mi persona, menos dependiente seré del afuera.

No return to the office! No return, anymore, to anything! Her life had cracked and smashed, at last; let it go, let it go.