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Quotes About Emancipation

We need to be free if we are to love.
~ John Armstrong
She felt free of everything that weighted her down on Earth. Free of danger, free of any pain she'd ever felt. Free of gravity.And so in love.
~ Lauren Kate
Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.
~ Linda Wisdom
Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It takes more than wings to release one from the bonds of kinship.
~ Betsy Tobin
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
~ Billy Corgan
In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales for the disrobed faceless forms of no position. Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts - all down in taken-for-granted situations. Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute, and the mistreated mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute, for the misdemeanor outlaw, chained an' cheated by pursuit. And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
~ Bob Dylan
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me You'll never know the hurt I suffer nor the pain I rise above And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or you kind of love And it makes me feel so sorry.
~ Bob Dylan
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
~ Boris Pasternak
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles—the oppression of tyranny—to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke Ã¢â'¬Â¦ if there are any abroad who desire to make this the land of their adoption, it is not in my heart to throw aught in their way, to prevent them from coming to the United States.
~ Brad Meltzer
The Emancipation Proclamation was the first great step. But it was two years later, near war's end, that Lincoln would throw his support behind the monumental Thirteenth Amendment, formally declaring the practice of slavery illegal, forever, throughout the United States.
~ Brad Meltzer
My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth.
~ Bram Stoker
My mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung like a bird, in the center of empty air.
~ Sylvia Plath
I made a point of never living in the same house with my mother for more than a week.
~ Sylvia Plath
Let It Go!!
~ T.D. Jakes
I say again, you must feel you are freed. It's not right for you to go on as you are. It's not like you. You're a different person. Don't answer. It's not meant to be answered. But it's like the gleaming of stars in a well. And no explanation.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
Her fear was gone, not only mostly, but completely, because it had been sustained by an illusion that was no longer part of her reality. The
~ Ted Dekker
I'm strangling her. She's not the one I want to eliminate. All this suppressing and holding her down, keeping her caged, perpetuating this fraud, this sham. I can't do it anymore." He shook his head. "I can't." He raised his chin and looked at me. "It won't go away. No matter how much I wish, or pray, she's always with me. She is me. I am her. I want to be her. I want to be Luna." "You
~ Julie Anne Peters
Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You can let that rule your whole life or you can put it behind you and move on. Only a madman lets jealousy determine the course of his existence. Only a weak man blames others for his own errors.
~ Juliet Marillier
al jazz como un modesto ejercicio de liberación
~ Julio Cortazar
The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery, and for a long time he couldn't remember why he felt this way, and then he said her name.
~ Junot Diaz
nunca se puede escapar. Jamás. La única salida está por dentro.
~ Junot Diaz
Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I have broken away from the clutch of all narrowness.
~ Kabir