Quotes About Emancipation

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

Why did the man who would become revered for generations as the Great Emancipator hesitate to do his "emancipating," and if it did take him so long, what is so "great" about that?

Rather than asserting an essence of femininity that society must value and protect, Beauvoir's move here is the opposite: she wants to demolish feminine identity in order to assert women's participation in universality. Identity is an obstacle to overcome rather than a foundation from which to base one's politics. Clinging to a particular identity cannot possibly be the source of emancipation since it clearly functions as the driving force for female subjugation.

The theoretical attempt to avoid colluding with totalitarianism has created a situation in which we have lost the thread of universal emancipation.

Plato's distinction between lovers of opinion and philosophers is a distinction between those who embrace present particulars just as they self-evidently are and those who instead recognize absent universals as what makes particulars into what they are. The implicit link between philosophy and emancipation is clear here. Emancipation is nothing if not the refusal to rest content with what is merely present.

Universals bring us together not by imposing a common structure on us but by revealing that we share what we don't have and can never have. The fact that no one can have a universal—no one possesses freedom or equality—is the source of their emancipatory quality. Universals are not possessions to have or lose or give away. We don't have to be suspicious of the universals because no one can ever impose them on us, even if someone wanted to.

Despite the salience of Marx's critique of capitalism, this was the worst event to occur within the internal history of the project of emancipation. The theoretical turn from Hegel to Marx paved the way for a practical catastrophe.

Taking [Hegel's] philosophy as the point of reference, we could say that emancipation involves making explicit and embracing contradiction, whereas conservatism aims at repressing or eliminating it.

All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them: all manner of amusements of the senses, even physical means of stupefaction, such as tabacco and alcohol.

As we officially make Juneteenth a federal holiday, we continue our fight for true liberation.

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

Sometimes I'm just like, 'I cannot hold onto this anymore,' and it's time to say something. And at the end of the day, I've just got to let it go and be true to myself. Whatever comes out comes out.

She was free in her prison on passion

How did the abandoned bicycle win its freedom?

Rise up with me against the organisation of misery.

all over the world wars people plagued by the same ills as their oppressor the real revolution is to love myself.

At various times in the past, technological optimists have predicted that textile workers would benefit from factory automation, that women would be emancipated by washing machines and vacuum cleaners, and that racial discrimination would vanish in the age of computers. If only.