logo

Quotes About Emancipation

When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!'
~ Richard J. Needham
If you let go of the things you're addicted to, your pains will let go of you.
~ Terri Guillemets
COMPARISON IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE SELF
~ Iyanla Vanzant
from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?
~ J.M. Coetzee
Esta insatisfacción constante, ese anhelo de algo que echas en falta, es una forma de pensar de la que, en mi opinión, nos hemos librado.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Z was the last to come over, and as he opened his arms wide, for some reason, the slave bands that had been tattooed around his throat and wrists stood out to her.
~ J.R. Ward
The thing was, though, the ridiculous, pansy-ass saying was right: If you loved someone, you set them free.
~ J.R. Ward
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
I felt free and therefore I was free.
~ Jack Kerouac
In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.
~ Stella Young
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
~ Salvador Dali
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Thus the man that has practiced control over himself cannot be acted upon by anything outside; there is no more slavery for him.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Love never comes until there is freedom
~ Swami Vivekananda
Everyone needs freedom. If you're in bondage, get free.
~ Tammy Kling
All liberation is loneliness
~ Tananarive Due
Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.
~ Tanith Lee
Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
~ Carles Puigdemont
I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
~ Aimee Mullins
When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.
~ Rosellen Brown
On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.
~ Patsy Kensit
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.
~ Steven Biko
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson