Emancipation Quotes

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. (Virginia Woolf)
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. View quote
Grace Kelly
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. View quote
John Adams
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. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
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. View quote
Will Durant
Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large. View quote
George Steiner
I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic. View quote
Franklin Pierce
The fact that Communism and Fascism assigned contradictory roles to history and reason-the emancipation of the proletariat versus the domination of the Aryan race-mattered little. View quote
Francois Furet
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)
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. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary... The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation. View quote
John Quincy Adams
Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature. View quote
Simone Weil
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
It isn't at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation. View quote
Edward Said
To choose evil is to choose freedom-"freedom, emancipation from all restraint.”. View quote
Georges Bataille
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves. View quote
Peter Benenson
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation. (Margaret Sanger)
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. View quote
I. F. Stone
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation. View quote
Edgar Degas
The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton