Quotes About Emancipation

In our country we use different words [than feminism] which mean the liberation or the emancipation of women. Of course I believe in the emancipation of women. It will change a lot of things in society for the better. But, you know, the class patriarchal system under which we live oppresses men too and the discrimination from which women suffer is not good for the life of men. Don't you think so?

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. I saw from the expression in his eyes that he feared me as only a master can fear his slave, as only a man can fear a woman.

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred,

the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

But as I got closer to the car that would take me away, I realized that when I went through that gate, if I still hated them, they would still have me. I wanted to be free. And so I let it go.

learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate.

Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.

El mundo no tiene corazón. —Entonces hay que cambiar el mundo. Darle

The hour of our release draws near.

At the time of the Russian emancipation, about 20 percent of the Russian population lived in serfdom. In the United States at this time, about 10 percent of the population lived in slavery.

It was strange, seeing her in clothes I had not bought or lent her, drinking wine she had selected without my advice, without needing me there.

The human physical senses must be emancipated from the sense of possession, and then the humanity of the senses and the human enjoyment of the senses will be achieved for the first time.

and they starts biddin' on me. And when they cried off and this Mr. Crosby come up to get me, I just pulled out my papers and helt 'em up high and when he sees 'em he say, "Let me see them." But I says, "You just look at it up here." He squints up and say, "This gal am free and has papers." And tells me he a legislature man and takes me and lets me stay with his slaves. He is a good man.

La muerte no significaba más que una liberación.

The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don't know how to live without it.

A prisão não está no exterior e, sim, no interior de cada um de nós. É possível que não saibamos viver sem ela.

Always in our dreams we hear the turn of the key that shall close the door of the last brothel; the clink of the last coin that pays for the body and soul of a woman; the falling of the last wall that encloses artificially the activity of woman and divides her from man; always we picture the love of the sexes, as, once a dull, slow, creeping worm; then a torpid, earthy chrysalis; at last the full-winged insect, glorious in the sunshine of the future.

How can we judge another person without imprisoning that person in his past acts? Without shackling him to one moment of his development?

We should remember that by being well integrated with any matter or thing, we will naturally come to be liberated from our attachment to them.

Never allow a truth of God that is brought home to your soul to pass without acting on it, not necessarily physically, but in will. Record it, with ink or with blood. The feeblest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is emancipated the second he acts; all the almighty power of God is on his behalf.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Please guide all beings from this swamp of cyclic existence!