Quotes About Emancipation

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.