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Quotes About Emancipation

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
~ Vita Sackville-West
The best way to transform a society is to empower the women of that society.
~ Debasish Mridha
Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.
~ Gerda Lerner
Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.
~ A.D. Posey
Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.
~ Dayananda Saraswati
This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
~ John Sergeant Wise
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
~ Thomas H. Huxley
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
~ Thomas Huxley
By changing the social order that oppresses women, the revolution creates the conditions for their genuine emancipation.
~ Thomas Sankara
Nous ne parlons pas de l'émancipation des femmes par charité, mais parce que pour nous c'est une base nécessaire pour le triomphe de notre révolution".
~ Thomas Sankara
Another problem doubtlessly lies in the feudal, reactionary, and passive attitude of many men who by their behavior continue to hold things back. They have no intention of jeopardizing the total control they have over women, either at home or in society in general. In the battle to build a new society, which is a revolutionary battle, the conduct of these men places them on the side of reaction and counterrevolution. For the revolution cannot triumph without the genuine emancipation of women.
~ Thomas Sankara
The Bible is the Book of Emancipation of Man. The emancipation of man means his delivery from sorrow and sickness, from poverty, struggle and uncertainty, from ignorance and limitation, and finally from death itself.
~ Thomas Troward
Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse
~ Thornton Wilder
I heard a voice in my head. It said: I would rather be alone than ever be my mother. I will leave before I am left.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules.
~ Alycia Debnam-Carey
We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.
~ David Starkey
I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.
~ Cullen Bunn
I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
~ Oliver Reed
Una esclava que se alegra es una esclava de todas formas.
~ Orson Scott Card
Lanik : - Je suis en train de perdre Saranna. L'Homee-qui-sais-tout : - C'est très bien. Peresonne ne doit posséder quelqu'un d'autre. >>
~ Orson Scott Card
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
~ Oscar Wilde
The harder it has been for a son of earth to win freedom, The more mightily does he stir his fellow man.
~ Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Did you want her to kill herself? No. I wanted her to be free. Do you think that's freedom? Maybe not. But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nicht länger Celeste. Fuchs. Sie war Fuchs. Sie war frei.
~ Cornelia Funke