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Quotes About Emancipation

The only known cure for poverty is emancipation of women
~ Christopher Hitchens
after Sammy struggles to unhook Stilton's bra] She rolled onto her face to give him a good shot at the hook in the back. Free my people! I will. I am the Harriet Tubman of your breasts.
~ Christopher Moore
Poate c? datoria celui care-i iubeÅŸte pe oameni este s?-i fac? s? râd? de adev?r, s? fac? adev?rul s? râd?, pentru c? singurul adev?r este s? înv???m s? ne eliber?m de pasiunea nes?n?toas? pentru adev?r.
~ Umberto Eco
La historia de la humanidad es la historia de su libertad [...] El progreso es, en esencia, progreso de la libertad humana.
~ Vasili Grossman
Segundo o seu amigo Semion Lípkin, Grossman teria adotado como norma de vida, nesta época, a frase de Tchékhov segundo a qual «era tempo, para cada um de nós, de nos livrarmos do escravo que trazemos cá dentro». Tentou então publicar o seu Vida e Destino, e foi o que se viu.
~ Vasily Grossman
Thou art free!
~ Victor Hugo
Suddenly she let fly with this: It's nice here! It was a ghastly dump, but she felt free.
~ Victor Hugo
Que lo pongan a uno en libertad no quiere decir que lo liberen. Del presidio se sale; de la condena, no.
~ Victor Hugo
Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.
~ Victor Hugo
La liberazione non è la libertà; si esce dal carcere, ma non dalla condanna.
~ Victor Hugo
Speech imprisoned frets to find a vent. To harangue space is an outlet.
~ Victor Hugo
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
~ Kwame Nkrumah
I don't want to confine you, I don't want to control you. I want to set you free.
~ Kyra Davis
Unless there is something to free men into, the act of freeing is simply a protest of slavery.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?
~ Laini Taylor
Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.
~ Lana Del Rey
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.
~ Lance Morrow
He wasn't sure when it had happened or how, but the small woman beside him was no longer his captive; he had become hers.
~ Catherine Anderson
Months before, Lincoln had been forced to slap down another Union general for jumping the gun on emancipation. In his jurisdiction in Missouri, General John C. Frémont declared martial law and abolished slavery in August 1861.
~ Catherine Clinton
Congress passed a Confiscation Act in July 1862, which "freed all slaves whose masters were rebels," and a Militia Act, which allowed these "forever free" blacks to be enlisted by the military as paid laborers.
~ Catherine Clinton
Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.
~ Catherine Fisher
The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or if not Jews, then Christians; women's sexuality—both the fear of a "past" and the dread of present emancipation signaled by the absence of a veil.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.
~ Gerda Lerner