Quotes About Emancipation

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.

Freedom is self-determination.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Freedom is the world of joy.

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.