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Quotes About Emancipation

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
~ Errico Malatesta
Lottare per l'emancipazione integrale, aspettando e preparando il giorno in cui essa sarà possibile, strappare al governo ed ai capitalisti tutti quei miglioramenti politici ed economici che possono migliorare per noi le condizioni della lotta ed aumentare il numero di coloro che lottano coscientemente. E perciò strapparli con mezzi che non implichino il riconoscimento degli ordini attuali e preparino le vie dell'avvenire.
~ Errico Malatesta
We was all of us free, brother. For that night at least, we was free.
~ Esi Edugyan
It's not enough to be born free; I have to live my freedom!
~ Esther M. Friesner
forgiveness is not so much for the perpetrator, but for the victim.
~ Eva Mozes Kor
My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.
~ Cornelia Parker
They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.
~ Robert Dale Owen
The company Liberated People represents just not liberation of different nations around the world; it can be special liberation days. It can be what the company represents and helps highlight someone's personal liberation date.
~ Gbenga Akinnagbe
I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.
~ Ezra Furman
So I departed and was free from imprisonment.
~ William Adams
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
~ Gerald F. Lieberman
Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
~ Bao Dai
its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.
~ Bernie Sanders
Cause what good is this freedom, if I ain't free to love you?
~ Bertice Berry
Never tie your happiness to the end of someone else's kite.
~ beth hoffman
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.
~ Betty Friedan
August first, 1834, the British freed its slaves in the West Indies. It was the beginning of slavery's end in Great Britain, and abolitionists everywhere celebrated
~ Beverly Jenkins
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
~ Bible
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
~ Bill Gates
If you take the time to wash a person's feet, you will see why they limp." Even the world's worst offender is not my enemy. Nor God's. He is merely a prisoner of war of a far greater enemy, one who wants to kill and destroy him. And it is my joy to love him and point him to the One who can set him free.
~ Bill Myers
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.
~ Amanda de Cadenet
If getting out was good for Buddha, it's good for you too.
~ Guy Kawasaki