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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
. . . 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
The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart. -- Salmon P. Chase
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
I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the 'planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt' of terrorist acts. -- Eskinder Nega
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 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
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 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
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
Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation.... -- Qurratulain Hyder
There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation. -- Paul Ricoeur
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. -- Noam Chomsky
When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation. -- Mary Lambert
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing. -- Pope Francis
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
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
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
If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs. -- James Sinegal
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis. -- Nikola Tesla
China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith. -- Chiang Kai-shek
There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war. -- Wojciech Jaruzelski
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 world is a challenging place in terms of wars and peace, basic human rights and freedoms. The Holy Father has a major role to play in global affairs. The pope is more than a spiritual leader. For the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he is an inspiration of holiness and goodness and, above all, the faithful proclamation of the Gospel. -- Chris Smith
Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation. -- David Platt
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation, -- Karl Barth
Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind. -- Gerhard Ebeling
The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you. -- Pope Francis
We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder. -- R. C. Sproul
The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture. -- Dallin H. Oaks
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Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out. -- Millard Fuller
To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel. -- William Henry Willimon
Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation. -- Mary Robinson
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
An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process. -- Frank Bruno
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. -- O. S. Hawkins
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it. -- Karl Barth
I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes. -- Ernesto Cardenal
The touched heart madly stirs,your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation,every sound is speech... -- Sappho
A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation. -- Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message. -- Michael Horton
The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone. -- R. C. Sproul
All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible. -- Mark Dever
I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches. -- Seanan McGuire
I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches. -- Seanan McGuire
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin. -- Charles Spurgeon
The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was the law of motion. -- Richard Digance
Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical. -- Elaine Pagels
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life. -- David Platt
The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact. -- Paul Althaus
The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration. -- Pope Francis
The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather, it involves the proclamation of the truth of Christ. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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