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  • The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

    Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

    Peter Benenson's remarks in 1961, as quoted in Paul Gordon Lauren "The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen" (p. 251), 2011.
  • 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.

    Moving   Gay   Thinking  
    "Jersey Boy". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 2009.
  • To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

  • 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?

  • The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women

  • 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.

    Mean   Class   People  
    "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.
  • Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

    Real   Usury   Judaism  
    Karl Marx (2015). “A World Without Jews”, p.35, Open Road Media
  • Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

    Education   Hands   Half  
  • Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

    Prayer   Men   President  
    Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.432, Penguin
  • 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 (2016). “The century of the child”, p.32, Ellen Key
  • I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.

    Running   Class   White  
    Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”
  • You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

  • When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

  • Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

    "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son" by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.
  • I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something

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

  • 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.

    Art   Character   People  
  • But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.

    War   Men   Iran  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • . . . 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 Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”
  • Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

    Change   Night   Light  
  • And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

    Xbox   Mean   Ipads  
    "CNN Student News Transcript". Interview with Carl Azuz, www.cnn.com. May 11, 2010.
  • Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.

    Religious   Atheist   War  
    Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.70, Macmillan
  • Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

  • The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

    Social   Claims   Scales  
    Friedrich Engels (1942). “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lews H. Morgan”
  • My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."

    Mother   Female   Looks  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're facing inward or facing outward, whatever you meet up with, just kill it! If you meet a buddha, kill the buddha. If you meet a patriarch, kill the patriarch. If you meet an arhat, kill the arhat. If you meet your parents, kill your parents. If you meet your kinfolk, kill your kinfolk. Then for the first time you will gain emancipation, will not be entangled with things, will pass freely anywhere you wish to go.

  • Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?

    Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.5, Verso
  • During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

    "Rand Paul at Howard University". The Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.
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