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Quotes About Emancipation

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
~ Tove Jansson
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it
~ Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
~ Daniel Delgado F
Make not your thoughts your prisons.
~ William Shakespeare
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
~ Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore.
~ Sue Fitzmaurice
Once you dominate yourself through conciousness, the attachments disappear and you can genuinely achieve your dreams.
~ SoyLaAzu
I may appear stand off-ish but I'm not. I just let go of my attachment to things.
~ Turcois Ominek
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.
~ Frederick Douglass
Be Free!, That I want to Be !
~ Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
We are only enslaved in our mind.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind.
~ J.D. Stroube, Caged in Spirit
Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah—to 'undo the heavy burdens . . . (and) let the oppressed go free.
~ James W. Douglass
She had refined her brain as much as possible to not give a fuck about what her father thought, and yet, every once in a while, she still saw herself through his eyes, heard his voice in her head, although it was not him, specifically, but a collective male vision, what she imagined men to be. And then she caught herself assessing her physical form, and it was not with love, no joy at its bounty, but rather through a skewed, screwed-up lens.
~ Jami Attenberg
President Abraham Lincoln is likewise falsely portrayed, presumably to salve white consciences and to mollify blacks. He is extolled as the Great Emancipator who wanted to set up the freed slave as the equal of his master. He was certainly opposed to slavery, but he did not want free blacks living in the same society as whites. As President he asked Congress several times to appropriate money to send them to Africa, and even argued for a Constitutional amendment for this purpose.818
~ Jared Taylor
Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
~ Ebelsain Villegas
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
~ Eckhardt Tolle
The moment you truly forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind.
~ Eckhart Tolle
people who are reaching a point where they become capable of breaking out of inherited collective mind-patterns that have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Escape may be checked by water and land, but the air en sky are free. -Daedalus
~ Edith Hamilton
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
~ Edith Wharton
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free;
~ Edith Wharton
No había motivo para tratar de emancipar a una esposa que no tenía la más remota noción de que no fuera libre; y ya hacía tiempo que había descubierto que el único uso de esa libertad que May suponía poseer sería dipositar dicha libertad en el altar de su adoración de esposa.
~ Edith Wharton