A Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
American - Writer
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.

Melville Fuller

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

Corrine Brown

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.

Rafael Cruz

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

Aberjhani

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

Malcolm X

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

James McGreevey

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Abraham Lincoln

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

Ann Coulter

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Abraham Lincoln

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

Abraham Lincoln

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

Lester Roloff

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

Francis James Grimke

They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.

Robert Dale Owen

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Pope Francis

We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

Gary L. Francione

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