Quotes About Emancipation

Control is an illusion. It doesn't work.

Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel'enedra. Love must ever live free.

Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free.

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

education was about the practice of freedom.

Women have greater freedom than ever before, and yet it is not clear whether that freedom has given us greater access to true love. It is not clear how that freedom has changed the nature of romance and partnerships.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

Clearly, men need new models for self-assertion that do not require the construction of an enemy "other

loving practice is not aimed at simply giving an individual greater life satisfaction; it is extolled as the primary way we end domination and oppression.

when you say I would die for you to those you love, the truth of those words may be not that you give your physical life but that you are willing to die to the past and be born again in the present where you can live fully and freely - where you can give us the love we need.

Forgiveness is an act of generosity. It requires that we place releasing someone else from the prison of their guilt or anguish over our feelings of outrage or anger.

I do not have to tell you there has been a disappointing retreat of progress in recent times, whatever it is we call progress, especially disappointing because of the little we have had since the Emancipation. There's something cursed, it seems to me, about a country where men have owned men as property. The stink of that corruption never escapes the soul, and it is the stink of future evil. Still, the original decrees have not been withdrawn and are therefore the law.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things - this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship.

be indifferent to the goods that fortune has to bestow, and you will be emancipated from fear.

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.

Never tie your happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.

I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. Exodus 3:7

One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

Whether it's something that happened as long ago as your early childhood or as recently as yesterday, the past can keep you from moving into all God has for you. That's why He wants to set you free from it.

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.

All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself.

I laid my palm on the second square – the woman in the field and the slaves flying in the air over her head. All that hope in the wind.

I tell you, there are times when words are so glad to be set free they laugh out loud and prance across their tablets and inside their scrolls. So it was with the words I wrote. They reveled till dawn. xvii.