Quotes About Emancipation

seeking to be free of something and freed to something.

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

Maybe that means "letting them get away with it" -- but maybe it also means letting *you* get away *from* it.

Susan Sontag did in 1967, that "the truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, the emancipation of women … don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought on the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Then honor to the day that gave him birth, For it is also Freedom's natal day.

Os poetas serão! Quando for abolida a servidão infinita da mulher, quando ela viver para ela e por ela, tendo-lhe o homem dado baixa – até agora abominável -, ela também será poeta! A mulher encontrará o desconhecido! Divergirão dos nossos os seus mundos de ideias? Ela descobrirá coisas estranhas, insondáveis, repugnantes, deliciosas, tomá-las-emos e compreenderemos

For I am one who strives for freedom. I must not be caught by wealth and honors. How could I be angry with the ones Who work to free me from my fetters?

But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon.

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

Good riddance, Yulan must have thought, to finally leave the one-room shack and her in-laws behind.)

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Please don't take offense, but I want no part of this family or what comes with it.

Many intellectually developed people are still emotionally immature. If they have to face pains, they try to escape from them. They are seldom prepared to face that pain and to work through it when they are taken intensely into a posture. This practice brings them face to face with the reality of their bodies' natures. We must face up to our emotions, not run away from them. We do not do yoga just for enjoyment; we do it for ultimate emancipation.

Avirati: This is the tremendous craving for sensory objects after they have been consciously abandoned, which is so hard to restrain. Without being attached to the objects of sense, the yogi learns to enjoy them with the aid of the senses which are completely under his control. By the practice of pratyahara he wins freedom from attachment and emancipation from desire and becomes content and tranquil.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

My favorite part about going to the gym used to be leaving.

The fight against AIDS and the fight for the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.