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Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. — Karl Marx

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation. — David Walker

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. — Saul Bellow

Nothing can enslaved us, if we free in our minds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. — Herbert Hoover

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation — Henry David Thoreau

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. — John Acton

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph. — Michelle Cliff

The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women — Thomas Sankara

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety. — Elijah Parish Lovejoy

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. — Honore De Balzac

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. — Emma Goldman

The only prison we can be is prison of our mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If freedom once required a secular critique of religion, it can also require a religious critique of the secular. — Harvey Cox

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation. — Margaret Deland

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. — Khaled Hosseini

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself. — Karl Marx

The discourse of work as pure emancipation depends on blocking out class and age constantly. — Nina Power

But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret. — Alan Paton

From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation. — Niall Ferguson

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. — John Maynard Keynes

Emancipation of mind is the greatest liberty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free — Amelia Bloomer

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'. — Peter Benenson

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation. — Andre Gide

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation. — Anton Szandor LaVey

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul. — Jit Sharma

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own. — Emily Procter

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. — Saddam Hussein

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation. — Robin Hobb

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history. — Rand Paul

For me emancipation will only be truly reached if a woman can wear makeup and skirts without having her abilities doubted as a result. — Kristina Schroder

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation] ... I invoke ... the gracious favor of Almighty God. — Abraham Lincoln

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently. — Abraham Lincoln

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

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation. — Kristin Armstrong

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective. — Zach Braff

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. — Grace Kelly

We are only enslaved in our mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself - without the assistance of governments. — Pierre-jospeh Proudhon

War, is the emancipation of man; abortion, is the emancipation of woman. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

Well, before the New Deal ... [The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start. — Ann Coulter

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

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it — B.K.S. Iyengar

No matter what China is going to become, China will never recover her true originality if she tries to please the West on Western terms. — Thorsten J. Pattberg

The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation. — Terry Eagleton

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now. — Bertrand Russell

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. — Georges Bataille

No emancipation without that of society. — Theodor Adorno

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. — Rabindranath Tagore

Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change. — Nike Thaddeus

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. — Tori Amos

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day. — Anthony Carmona

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. — Robert Charles Winthrop

The only known cure for poverty is emancipation of women — Christopher Hitchens

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army. — Petra Kelly

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. — Henry Charles Carey

Emancipation of human nature inevitably brings with it scientific and technological progress. — Liu Cixin

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

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free. — Ziauddin Yousafzai

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women — Yip Harburg

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. — Harriet Martineau

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. — Rand Paul

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

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. — Kate Millett

German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans. — Anonymous

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

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation. — Pam Grier

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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? — Annie Lennox

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation. — Nhat Hanh

First, one has the difficulty of emancipating oneself from one's chains; and, ultimately, one has to emancipate oneself from this emancipation too. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. — Carter G. Woodson

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. — Thomas Huxley

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense — Bertrand Russell

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color. — Ernestine Rose

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. — George Will

On January 9, 1863, nine days after Lincoln ended slavery by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, — Doug Most

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation. — Thomas Jefferson

Well then, I'll take a whole heap of that emancipation, Mister Jesse. Yes, sir, a whole heap." -Cyrus

A Glimpse Of Freedom — M.A. Bookout

Women's history is the
primary tool for women's emancipation. — Gerda Lerner

The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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