Quotes About Emancipation

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

He reminded MacLeish of the "profound part that culture and society play in the very definition of human values, human salvation and liberation." Therefore, "I think that what is needed is something far subtler than the emancipation of the individual from society; it involves, with an awareness that the past one hundred and fifty years have rendered progressively more acute, the basic dependence of man on his fellows.

We are slaves to ourselves. And we think that we are free. The greatest freedom that we have is the freedom to walk away from ourselves.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?

Chaque fois qu'un homme a fait triompher la dignité de l'esprit, chaque fois qu'un homme a dit non à une tentative d'asservissement de son semblable, je me suis senti solidaire de son acte.

Fighting for the freedom of one's people is not the only necessity. As long as the fight goes on you must enlighten not only the people but also, and above all, yourself on the full measure of man. You must retrace the paths of history, the history of man damned by other men, and initiate, bring about, the encounter between your own people and others.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

Oui, comme on le voit, en faisant appel à l'humanité, au sentiment de la dignité, à l'amour, à la charité, il nous serait facile de prouver ou de faire admettre que le Noir est l'égal du Blanc. Mais notre but est tout autre : ce que nous voulons, c'est aider le Noir à se libérer de l'arsenal complexuel qui a germé au sein de la situation coloniale. M.

The colonized' subject thus dicovers that his life, his breathing and his heartbeats are the same as the colonist's. He discovers that the skin of a colonist is not worth more than the 'native's.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The world of the soap opera is the world of the Emancipated American Woman, a creature whose idleness is employed to no other purpose but creating mischief.

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Freedom is within our grasp, and Pesach reminds us that we need to reach.

We write to free ourselves and help others.

Shame and humiliation will never be effective social justice tools.

Your momma and daddy leave you at some point, and then you are on your own.

Er zal pas sprake zijn van emancipatie, wanneer het niet meer kan gebeuren dat mensen (mannen noch vrouwen) object zijn van begeerte-zonder-genegenheid of van gevoel-zonder-inzicht, van welke benadering dan ook zonder respect voor de persoon.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagination

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation

Your desire is to escape everything? Everything.