Quotes About Emancipation

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

she felt newly born. No longer forced to relive, no, outlive the disdain of her mother and the abandonment of her father.

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous.

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Nothing should be worth more to you than its value in helping you live your life. If you are willing to slough off the past, even at a loss, you are keeping yourself free, and your world continues to grow. If you insist on holding to some abstract valuation, you are being held hostage by that possession, and you are trapped in a prison of your own devising.

Uncompensated emancipation suggests not that the Founders' Constitution is being changed but that it is being repudiated—claims based on slavery are as invalid as claims based on rebel debt. Uncompensated emancipation is of course also a feature of the Emancipation Proclamation—and the Takings Clause issue is one of several reasons to think that the Emancipation Proclamation is unconstitutional under the Founders' Constitution.

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They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

We'd escaped. Mam, Hitlers bombs, my one-room prison. Everything. Crazy or not, I was free.

A dog has no money. A dog has no rights. A dog has no way to communicate his grievances. I am a dog. God help me.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.

Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

Once a mind has been set free, it would rather be destroyed than return to captivity.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

el régimen de López Obrador se mueve en una lógica similar: incorpora a las clases populares, desatendidas por el neoliberalismo, pero sin ofrecerles la emancipación y la oportunidad de autogobernarse.

Some 20 percent of Trump supporters believed the Emancipation Proclamation had been bad public policy and that the enslaved should have never been freed.

Similarly, Carl Schurz reported that in his conversation with a plantation owner, who was beside himself that emancipation had left him without any slaves to do the heavy lifting, the man dismissed the idea of working the land himself. "The idea that he would work with his hands as a farmer seemed to strike him as ludicrously absurd. He told me with a smile that he had never done a day's work of that kind in his life.

The truth will set you free, and then you shall be free indeed.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Time is a tyranny to be abolished.

No man may make another free.