Quotes About Emancipation

The Emancipation Proclamation is perhaps the most misunderstood of the documents that have shaped American history. Contrary to legend, Lincoln did not free the nearly four million slaves with a stroke of his pen. It had no bearing on slaves in the four border states, since they were not in rebellion. The Proclamation also exempted certain parts of the Confederacy occupied by the Union. All told, it left perhaps 750,000 in bondage.

Freedom aggravates at least as much as it alleviates frustration.

A person's not free if their freedom has to be given.

Le cÅ"ur de l'homme est comme un oiseau enfermé dans la cage du corps.» Quand tu danses, le cÅ"ur, il chante comme un oiseau qui aspire à se fondre en Dieu.

The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man's truly human development.

l'amour est l'enfant de la liberté" as an old French song says; love is the child of freedom

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

C'est notre regard qui enferme souvent les autres dans leurs plus étroites appartenances, et c'est notre regard aussi qui peut les libérer.

Someone other than I might have used the word "roots". It is not part of my vocabulary. I don't like the word, and I like even less the image it conveys. Roots burrow into the ground, twist in the mud, and thrive in darkness; they hold trees in captivity from their inception and nourish them at the price of blackmail: "Free yourself and you'll die

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

Don't think of it so much like running away, Mom. Think of it as escaping.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

las pobres gentes, adiestradas en la obediencia por sus antiguos tiranos y por sus recientes libertadores, se alejaron de allí cabizbajas, arrastrando los pies.

Le plus beau présent de la vie est la liberté qu'elle vous laisse d'en sortir à votre heure.

Man, strip off thy garments, cover thy head with ashes, run into the streets and dance in thy madness.

The anti-slavery movement only took off once white people in Europe and America began to see people of African descent not as property but as people.

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

I'm not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome women as long as they qualify for the job.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

In bonded labour cases, judges would ask me why I had brought those people to the courts who stank. 'You are here precisely for them,' I would respond.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.