Quotes About Emancipation

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

En todo largo periplo hay un momento en que percibes que el viaje ha comenzado de veras, y no suele suceder al principio, sino cuando sientes que tu alma ha escapado definitivamente a la rutina, que ha huido de los hábitos de la vida cotidiana, de tu patria, en suma.

One black man, overcome by emotion, dropped to his knees, prompting the president to conduct a curbside colloquium on the meaning of emancipation. "Don't kneel to me," said the president. "That is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will enjoy hereafter.

Every one I talk to is in favor of putting negroes in the army and that immediately … I think slavery is now gone and what little there is left of it should be rendered as serviceable as possible." For her part, Mary Chesnut lamented, "If we had only freed the negroes at first and put them in the army—that would have trumped [the Union's] trick.

Luca feels unmoored from the boundaries of time that have always existed.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

I really wanted to lose myself. People my entire life have told me I am too much in control, but that has never been the case. I have never truly been in control, have never wanted control.

That if they could not have a fierce joy in their struggle, then they were not truly free but governed by fear and doubt.

you should know that the dead, because they are no longer free, are no longer able to suffer. Only the living can.

Never let a man be responsible for your happiness.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a false mask of gaiety when she was so much more—felt so much more—beneath. No one had ever noticed her mask. No one but him. If he couldn't or wouldn't make the first move, then damn it, she would.

She has found by experience that she is in a world where female emancipation is a password and not a fact—she is beautiful, therefore she should not be clever.

I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

The promoters of emancipation were not bent on promoting a revolution so much as they were intent on snuffing one out – a backward-looking, aristocratic revolution – in order to put the South back on the track it should have been on from the beginning of the republic.

When I got to college, when I finally fled the suffocation that I'd built around myself—because, to my father's credit, he'd never asked me to captain our plagued family's ship—it all collapsed.

Al parecer, huir es poco glorioso. Lástima, porque es una sensación muy agradable. La huida proporc­iona la más formidable sensación de libertad que se pueda experim­entar. Te sientes más libre huyendo que si no tienes nada de lo que huir. [...] Uno debería tener siempre algo de lo que huir, para cultivar esa maravil­losa posibil­idad. De hecho, siempre hay algo de lo que huir. Aunque sólo sea de uno mismo.

The Republican party is not the party for the wealthy. We care about everyone.

Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.