Quotes About Emancipation

Allow yourself to be freed from the constraints of what the mind knows, believes & thinks.

Love makes you free without an asterisk mark.

Happiness is.. looking at the closing door, then bolting them from outside and fleeing.

Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

He that hath liberty ought to kepe it wel, for nothyng is better than liberty.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungsReceive our air, that moment they are free!They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

The man who has capital has secured his future, won leisure which he can employ in winning secondary objects of necessity and advantage, and emancipated himself from those things in life which are gross and belittling. The

Sprofondò in se stessa, cancellando tutto quello che le stava attorno, quel peso opprimente e insopportabile. Fuggì, anche se nessuno se ne accorse.

If slavery was justified on the ground that masters were white while slaves were black, Lincoln warned, "By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own." If it was defended on the ground that masters were intellectually the superiors of blacks, the same logic applied: "By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own." The

The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves.

Emancipation was a mistake;" and these fast writers drew along with them a large body, who would fain be slaveholders themselves. We must never lose sight of the fact that though the majority perhaps are on the side of freedom, large numbers of Englishmen are not slaveholders only because the law forbids the practice

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

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

Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.

I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

It's more important to be free than to be happy.