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Quotes About Emancipation

The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman
~ Magnus Hirschfeld
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
~ Kate Millett
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
~ Margaret Fuller
Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.
~ Yul Brynner
Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
~ Diana Vreeland
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
~ Victoria Woodhull
Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-
~ Mina Loy
I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
~ Theodor Adorno
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
~ Frantz Fanon
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.
~ Gautama Buddha
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.
~ W. H. Auden
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
~ Vilayat Inayat Khan
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!
~ Halldor Laxness
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
~ Frederick Douglass
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
~ Anton Chekhov
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.
~ James Oppenheim
No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.
~ Frantz Fanon
I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
~ Benjamin F. Wade
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
~ Erica Jong