Quotes About Emancipation

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

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

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

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

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

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

This shed does not contain me.

I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case.

Independence didn't have to be exile.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see...

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.