Quotes About Emancipation

I have often been asked how I felt when I first found myself on free soil," he wrote later. The answer was simple yet profound. "A new world had opened upon me," he said. "I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life.

The word 'revolutionary' can be applied only to revolutions whose aim is freedom.

The bourgeoisie, so long excluded from government by the nation-state and by their own lack of interest in public affairs, was politically emancipated by imperialism. Imperialism must be considered the first stage in political rule of the bourgeoisie rather than the last stage of capitalism.

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to protect myself and remained a prisoner.

Whatever decision you make, let it be the one that will set your mind free.

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

Yet it is only love which sets us free.

If you love somebody, set them free.

A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love , not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

Yet it is only love which sets us free.

removed from their own day of glorious release

I have no doubt that slavery as an institution will eventually be banished