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Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. -- Grace Kelly
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. -- Mortimer Adler
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. -- Rabindranath Tagore
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. -- John Maynard Keynes
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. -- I. F. Stone
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. -- Harriet Martineau
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. -- Ellen Key
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. -- Barry Goldwater
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. -- Steven Biko
The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him. -- Salmon P. Chase
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
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. -- Salvador Dali
Emancipation from suffering is your birthright. -- Erin Fall Haskell
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation. -- Pam Grier
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women -- Thomas Sankara
If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. -- Malcolm X
You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start. -- Ann Coulter
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God. -- Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women -- Yip Harburg
Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day. -- Anthony Carmona
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color. -- Ernestine Rose
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. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army. -- Petra Kelly
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
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. -- Wendell Willkie
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
The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself. -- Adolf Hitler
Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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...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
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband. -- Tariq Ramadan
Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters. -- Mortimer Adler
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery. -- Emma Goldman
No emancipation without that of society. -- Theodor Adorno
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. -- Carter G. Woodson
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. -- George Will
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. -- Virginia Woolf
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. -- Thomas Huxley
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. -- Victoria Woodhull
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. -- Lord Acton
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. -- Lord Acton
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. -- Saddam Hussein
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. -- Robert Charles Winthrop
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. -- Christopher Hitchens
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. -- Kate Millett
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? -- Annie Lennox
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. -- Emma Goldman
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free. -- Frederick Douglass
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
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population. -- Roger B. Taney
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. -- Roberto Unger
As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. -- Ian Fleming
Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way. -- Arthur L. Herman
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation. -- Gerda Lerner
Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation. -- Kristin Armstrong
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. -- Georges Bataille
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. -- Henry Charles Carey
Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'. -- Peter Benenson
The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history. -- Rand Paul
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. -- Tori Amos
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation. -- Andre Gide
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation. -- Thomas Jefferson
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free. -- Ziauddin Yousafzai
True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. -- Emma Goldman
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. -- Germaine Greer
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation. -- Margaret Deland
It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself. -- Karl Marx
In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free -- Amelia Bloomer
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. -- Khaled Hosseini
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. -- Honore de Balzac
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently. -- 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
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. -- Karl Marx
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
. . . 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
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it -- B.K.S. Iyengar
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective. -- Zach Braff
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret. -- Alan Paton
For me emancipation will only be truly reached if a woman can wear makeup and skirts without having her abilities doubted as a result. -- Kristina Schroder
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. -- Rand Paul
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked." -- Nina Power
true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds. -- Emma Goldman
Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation . -- Kumari Jayawardena
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 -- Bertrand Russell
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition. -- Mohammed Arkoun
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. -- Nhat Hanh
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached. -- Amos Elon
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation. -- Rand Paul
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt. -- Nathaniel Branden
It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own. -- Emily Procter
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. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise. -- Gautama Buddha
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. -- Alvin Bailey
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization. -- Julian Assange
In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible. -- B.G. Bowers
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception. -- Richard M. Weaver
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. -- Will Durant
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. -- David Walker
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. -- Camille Paglia
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner

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