Quotes About Emancipation

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

true liberation is freedom from our own automatic responses.

But before either of us can speak again, I feel crackle-crackle-crackle. I can't tell what's going to happen next. My seizure begins to spin slowly through me. What will my dad do? Whatever it is, in another moment I'll be flying free. Either way, whatever he does, I'll be soaring.

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

No emancipation without that of society.

Love released from bond, and unburdened of its fetters, is love no longer.

Be not the slave of Words.

Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.

Free your self from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But isn't that, too, a form of slavery?

In all post-emancipation societies the balance between the possibility of land ownership and self-sufficiency for ex-slaves and their dependence on wager labor determined the tightness of this labor control. In the US South planters effectively transformed ex-slaves into an agricultural proletariat with a gamut of labor relations ranging from tenancy to sharecropping to debt-peonage. The necessary political corollary of this labor system was the preservation of white supremacy.

If we can forgive what's been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

Losing all hope was freedom.

It's the sweetest of moments when the fire takes control, and you're no longer responsible for anything.

The liberator who destroys my property," Tyler said, is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

Únicamente cuando se pierde todo somos libres para actuar.