Top 250 Emancipation Quotes & Sayings

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

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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

No emancipation without that of society.

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

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

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

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

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization, and I would also say this: that the emancipation of the mind from religious superstition is as essential to the progress of civilization as is emancipation from physical slavery.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

Rejoice in the great, free emancipation of peoples.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

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

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

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

I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.

The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

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

The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.

Our emancipation means standing up for strong families, our emancipation means standing against the homosexuality agenda, emancipation for us means standing up against the repealing of the buggery law.

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

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

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.