Quotes About Emancipation

To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down...

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.

Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain people and expands them beyond all laws; there is no time, no place for regrets, hesitations, cowardices. Love runs free and reckless, and all the gentle trickeries perpetrated to protect others from its burns-those who are not the lovers but who might be the victims of this love's expansion.

To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went.

Woman's emancipation means education of men as well as women," Alva insisted. "The mating of the future which will be a success will be founded on the truth of being. We are not only making a new woman—we are making a new man. We are not only bringing forth the truth in women but making men desire the truth.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.

I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free.

I will say here what I have never said before: my pacifism was not challenged by the beating and torture I experienced in marriage some thirty years ago; I finally got away not because I knew that he would kill me but because I thought I would kill him.

The negroes been freed.' 'Well, I ain't.

She could never be free from herself, but she could be free from her father, and at the moment that mattered most.

I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard.

So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me.

Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?

Parliament would abolish slavery in the British Empire in 1833, thirty years before President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. A return to the British fold in 1778 might have freed American slaves three decades sooner, which is what, an entire generation and a half? Was independence for some of us more valuable than freedom for all of us? As the former slave Frederick Douglass put it in an Independence Day speech in 1852, 'This is your Fourth of July, not mine'.

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.

Laughter, it turns out, is the soul of liberty.

I often feel that way, I would like to open one of my veins, to bring me eternal freedom.

Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.