Quotes About Emancipation

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

You could give a slave his freedom, but nothing could undo the fact that he had been a slave; and between him, a freed-man, and any free man who had never been unfree, there would still be a difference. Wherever the Roman way of life held good, there would still be a difference.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

i am the wind. one day, i will fly free

Freedom is such a gift.

Suicide is the holy right of a free man, the last affirmation of freedom.

Dost thou desire that thine own heart should not suffer, redeem thou the sufferer from the bonds of misery.

The free being is only that which makes itself free.

But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. [...] each day I live as if I am already dead.

That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days—I'm glad to be free of them.

Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of us and them creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.

Marcus sought by-laws to protect the weak, to make the lot of the slaves less hard, to stand in place of father to the fatherless.

There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the day of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.