Quotes About Emancipation

Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.

I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

I didn't write the history of my flight in the sky,, still I flew for sheer joy.

Rajalakshmi would send for Bihari and express her grief. Bihari would tell her, 'Ma, when the worm weaves a cocoon there is not much to fear, but when it breaks out and flies away, it is hard to make it return. Who would have thought he would break free of his bond with you in such a manner?

It was as if some breeze kept wafting toward me, bearing a tormenting scent of freedom- and that same torment suddenly seemed to have bothered and pursued me for too much of my life.

I have wanted to be free my whole life and I haven't managed to liberate my smallest toe. I

I have wanted to be free my whole life... the germ of a possibility that was soon to grow and rage like a cancer through my life... on the brink of rebellion whose impossible yearnings...

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.

I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. We were enslaved; we picked cotton. There was Honest Abe, who wore a top hat and was taller than anyone and who said, 'Enough is enough; slavery must end.' And then, black people could stand up again. But after that, we didn't catch up.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

I suffered too much and I want to stop the suffering of other people.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere femininity in the alterations of her outward station, and the men who today do not feel it coming will be surprised and struck by it.

Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.

Do you still call it 'Juneteenth,' Revern' Hickman? Is it still celebrated?

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels. That is why so many actes gratuites are criminal: a man asserts his freedom by disobeying a law and retains a sense of self-importance because the law he has disobeyed is an important one. Much crime is magic, an attempt to make free with necessity.

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