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Quotes About Emancipation

the culmination of an evolutionary trend towards the emancipation of survival machines as executive decision-takers from their ultimate masters, the genes.
~ Richard Dawkins
Whatever the philosophical problems raised by consciousness, for the purpose of this story it can be thought of as the culmination of an evolutionary trend towards the emancipation of survival machines as executive decision-takers from their ultimate masters, the genes. [The Selfish Gene]
~ Richard Dawkins
Where is the voice of freedom, / freedom to laugh, / to move / without the heavy phantom of despair? (From Farewell from Welfare Island)
~ Julia de Burgos
Rio Grande de Loíza!... Río grande. LLanto grande. El más grande de todos nuestros llantos isleños, si no fuera mas grande el que de mí se sale por los ojos del alma para mi esclavo pueblo. Río Grande de Loíza!...Great river. Great flood of tears. The greatest of all our island's tears save those greater that come from the eyes of my soul for my enslaved people.
~ Julia de Burgos
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
~ Kafka Franz
The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The emancipation of women was a project dear to the Prophet's heart, but it was resolutely opposed by many men in the ummah, including some of his closest companions.
~ Karen Armstrong
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.
~ Karl Marx
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
~ Karl Marx
Die Proletarier dieser Welt haben nichts zu verlieren als ihre Ketten. Sie haben eine Welt zu gewinnen. Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
~ Karl Marx
T]he emancipation of the workers contains universal human emancipation — and it contains this because the whole of human servitude is involved in the relation of the worker to production, and all relations of servitude are but modifications and consequences of this relation.
~ Karl Marx
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
~ Karl Marx
Proletaryan?n, zincirlerinden baÅŸka kaybedecek bir ÅŸeyi yoktur. Ama kazanacaklar? bir dünya vard?r.
~ Karl Marx
The Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
~ Karl Marx
To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo
~ Karl Marx
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
~ Karl Marx
EleÅŸtiri, zinciri süsleyen hayali çiçekleri, insan bu gerçek d??? süslerden soyulmuÅŸ prangalar? ta??s?n diye deÄŸil, zincirleri f?rlat?p ats?n ve canl? çiçeÄŸe uzans?n diye kopartm??t?r.
~ Karl Marx
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
~ Karl Marx
The head of this emancipation is philosophy; its heart is the proletariat. Philosophy cannot be realized without the abolition of the proletariat, the proletariat cannot abolish itself without realizing philosophy.
~ Karl Marx
When Bauer asks Jews: Have you the right from your standpoint to crave political emancipation? we would inquire on the contrary: Has the standpoint of political emancipation the right to demand of Jews the abolition of Judaism, or from men generally the abolition of religion.
~ Karl Marx
The proletariat is the agent of this emancipation because it is the only class whose particular interest is synonymous with he general interests of humanity. And it is charged with this supreme mission precisely because it is the most exploited and hence most dehumanized class in existing society.
~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Free men set themselves free.
~ James Oppenheim
But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
~ Ayn Rand
Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.
~ Shulamith Firestone
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
~ Theodore Roosevelt