Quotes with emancipation

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • John Maynard Keynes A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • I. F. Stone Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
    I. F. Stone
    American journalist and writer (1907 - 1989)
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  • Mortimer J. Adler Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • John Adams 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
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Angela Davis In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Al Sharpton It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Emma Goldman 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
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Carter G. Woodson One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • George F. Will Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Angela Davis 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.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ellen Key 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
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Abe Fortas The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Herbert Hoover True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Virginia Woolf The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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