Quotes About Emancipation

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

Anyone who lives with a dog, as I do, knows that dogs are thinking, feeling individuals who do not deserve to be caged, scared and used as disposable test tubes with tails.

The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

wanted his freedom. But then you could

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

For three or four days the men fought the fire, saving the property and effects of the people, yet these white men and women could not tolerate our black Union soldiers, for many of them had formerly been their slaves; and although these brave men risked life and limb to assist them in their distress, men and even women would sneer and molest them whenever they met them.

Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free.

Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

For a moment we knew what it felt like to be free.

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

To me, love means being free of your own bondage and connecting to another soul.

I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.

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.