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Quotes About Emancipation

First, the long emancipation centered on the resolute commitment of a few men and women—most of them black slaves, along with former slaves and the descendants of slaves—to end slavery and create a slaveless world.
~ Unknown
UNDERSTANDING the destruction of slavery in the United States not as a single climactic event but as a long process that stretched across a near-century provides a useful and perhaps fuller appreciation of the reality of emancipation. Freedom's arrival was not the work of a moment but the product of movement; it was a process, rather than an occasion.12 Taking the long view of slavery's demise
~ Unknown
Today the combat takes a different shape; instead of wishing to put man in a prison, woman endeavors to escape from one; she no longer seeks to drag him into the realms of immanence but to emerge, herself, into the light of transcendence. Now the attitude of the males creates a new conflict: it is with a bad grace that the man lets her go.
~ Ira Levin
En el punto de partida de las ciencias empírico-analíticas hay un interés técnico, en el de las histórico-hermenéuticas un interés práctico, y en el de las ciencias orientadas críticamente aquel interés emancipatorio del conocimiento que, sin concederlo, estaba ya como base de las teorías tradicionales.
~ Jurgen Habermas
They killed to free themselves from a tyranny of love and care.
~ J. G. Ballard
He too had been taken away from his home. He too had been put into the service of another without his consent. He too had been sent to a foreign country far from his native parts. He too had been forced to fight against other slaves of his own kind in a strange place.
~ Dalton Trumbo
The true purpose of mankind is to bear the torch of truth aloft and shine it, even into the darkest places. To share our forensic, unforgiving, liberating understanding with the dimmest reaches of the cosmos. To emancipate those shackled in ignorance. To free ourselves and others from false gods, and take our place at the apex of sentient life. That… that is what we may pour faith into. That is what we can harness our boundless faith to.
~ Dan Abnett
At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.
~ Dan Chaon
I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.
~ Sal Khan
Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.
~ John Sergeant Wise
I don't believe in violence against women.
~ Dan Bilzerian
The average American husband has relinquished his responsibility as head of his household. Though the wife is partly at fault, he is mostly to blame. I'm not suggesting that women should return to the subservient position before their emancipation when they were virtually slaves of their husbands. But freedom for women can be overdone.
~ Lorne Greene
I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.
~ Michael K. Powell
Everybody gets to be free.
~ Louise L. Hay
Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat--especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.
~ Unknown
If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?
~ Unknown
To know one's history, is, as in psychoanalysis, to work towards one's own emancipation, and a democratic ideal of liberty of thought cannot dispense with the study of history, if it is to approach the present without prejudices.
~ Unknown
I had come to see a beautiful liberation in this new way of thinking—which was, ironically, not having to think for myself.
~ Jodi Picoult
Maria kijkt me aan. Ik weet niet wat deze persoon jou heeft aangedaan, en misschien wil ik het ook liever niet weten. Maar iemand vergeven doe je niet voor die ander. Je doet het voor jezelf, zodat je verder kunt met je leven. Het betekent: jij bent niet zo belangrijk voor mij dat je me in je greep kunt houden. Het betekent: jij zult mij niet verstrikken in het verleden. Ik verdien een toekomst.
~ Jodi Picoult
i had not meant to leave them; i had only meant to leave. i wasnt running away from them; i was only running away
~ Jodi Picoult
forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future." I
~ Jodi Picoult
But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.' I
~ Jodi Picoult
You mustn't hurt him. Let him go
~ Johanna Spyri
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
~ John Adams