Emancipation Quotes

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

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

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.