Quotes About Emancipation

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Dorothea had little vanity, but she had the ardent woman's need to rule beneficently by making the joy of another soul.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

I've been taking off my tie for a lot of years. When I take it off, I usually throw it down.

Though foreign loans are indispensable for the emancipation of the rising capitalist states, they are yet the surest ties by which the old capitalist states maintain their influence, exercise financial control, and exert pressure on the customs, foreign and commercial policy of the young capitalist states.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

So, socially, if we create a situation that does not set up discrimination or an atmosphere that is not overly dripping with sentimental pity, there would be no problem.

I have liberated my soul.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

We will do much more for the happiness of the lower classes," utopian socialist Victor Considerant wrote, "for their real emancipation and true progress, in guaranteeing these classes well-remunerated work, than in winning political rights and a meaningless sovereignty for them. The most important of the people's rights is the right to work.

If I can sing, I still am free.

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

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

I want to start saying bad words all the time!

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. —Henry Van Dyke

Et c'était là la chose importante: il fallait avant tout se libérer de la mère qui ne pouvait pas comprendre que dans la vie, on pouvait gagner sa liberté, sa dignité, avec des armes différentes de celles qu'elle avait crues bonnes.

Il difficile non è raggiungere qualcosa, è liberarsi dalla condizione in cui si è.

I surrender myself, that I might be used in bringing the end of suffering to all

I read "The Second Sex." Simone explained that if women peed standing up, their perception of life would change. So I tried. It ran lightly down my left leg. It was a little disgusting. Seated, it was much simpler. And as an Iranian woman, before learning to urinate like a man, I needed to learn to become a liberated and emancipated woman.