Quotes About Emancipation

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

For true love is always free, and obligation cannot exist in the space of love.

Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy—only free.

From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things…one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority, its indispensable