Quotes About Emancipation

Frederick Douglass paired Grant with Lincoln as the two people who had done most to secure African American advances: "May we not justly say . . . that the liberty which Mr. Lincoln declared with his pen General Grant made effectual with his sword—by his skill in leading the Union armies to final victory?"21 For the admiring Douglass, Grant was "the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.

For many in the North, the high drama of preserving the union and emancipating the slaves had exhausted their capacity for altruism, leaving a residual contagion of greed.

Being out felt great. Felt like freedom. Like all my life I'd had a slight headache. Not noticing until it was gone.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. …The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.

France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification.

I have tried in my way to be free.

The need for the amendment was obvious. Of the nation's four million slaves at the outset of the war, no more than five hundred thousand were now [15 June 1854] free, and, to his disgust, many white Americans intended to have them reenslaved once the war was over.

True love frees us, and at the same time it binds us:

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

Freedom is now or never.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

No, you accept the world, and you make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.

what would it be like if I could, if I were free

The word 'escape' was suggestive

Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?

But every evil brings its own remedy. Another quality of Saturn is melancholy; Saturn represents the sorrow of the universe; it is the Trance of sorrow that has determined one to undertake the task of emancipation. This is the energizing force of Law; it is the rigidity of the fact that everything is sorrow which moves one to the task, and keeps one on the Path.

the ultimate Yoga which gives emancipation, which destroys the sense of separateness which is the root of Desire, is to be made by the concentration of every element of one's being, and annihilating it by intimate combustion with the universe itself.

Ladies and gentlemen, is there no way Of getting all honourable dogs free, once and for all, from their shameful slavery to mankind

About aviaries: You fill it up, as many as you can. Then one day when something good happens to you, you throw it open and watch them fly away.