Quotes About Emancipation

Encontré la libertad. Perder toda esperanza era la libertad

Önce teslim olmal?s?n. Her ÅŸeyden önce korkmay? b?rak?p, bir gün öleceÄŸini kabullenmelisin. Sadece her ÅŸeyi kaybettikten sonra özgür kalabiliriz.

El maestro que logre apartar las posesiones de mi camino me liberará.

Esto era la libertad. La libertad consistía en perder toda esperanza.

We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate ourselves from within

To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one's humanity.

How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.

Elwood dressed in the dark slacks from last year's Emancipation Day play. He'd grown a few inches, so he let them out and they showed the barest sliver of his white socks. A new emerald tie clip held his black tie in place and the knot only took six attempts. His shoes glinted with polish. He looked the part, even if he still worried for his glasses if the police brought out nightsticks. If the whites carried iron pipes and baseball bats.

She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him.

Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation.

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

La historia de la oposición masculina a la emancipación de las mujeres quizá sea más interesante que la propia historia de la emancipación

To be flung into the sea, to be washed hither and thither, and driven about the roots of the world—the idea was incoherently delightful. She sprang up, and began moving about the room, bending and thrusting aside the chairs and tables as if she were indeed striking through the waters. He watched her with pleasure; she seemed to be cleaving a passage for herself, and dealing triumphantly with the obstacles which would hinder their passage through life.

La historia de la oposición de los hombres a la emancipación de las mujeres es más interesante quizá que el relato de la emancipación misma.

we may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born.

Nobody run off with her," Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

Freedom, I am beginning to realize, means not even being aware you're free.

May you realize your own freedom.

declare and ordain as free and quit of every obligation of captivity, subjection, and slavery, my captured

declare and ordain as free and quit of every obligation of captivity, subjection, and slavery, my captured slave Enrique, mulatto, native of the city of Malacca, of the age of twenty-six years more or less

thenceforward forever the said Enrique may be free and manumitted, and quit, exempt, and relieved of every obligation of slavery

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free," Wharton wrote in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence.