#emancipation

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

#after #argument #as far as #commitment #day

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#bible #blocks #church #emancipation #greatest

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

#block #canon #church #emancipation #greatest

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

— I. F. Stone

#easily #emancipation #every #lie #new

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#emancipation #freedom #soil #tree

Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained. ↗

— Lalita Tademy

#post-emancipation #freedom

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

— Saul Bellow

#madness #unlimited-freedom #freedom

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

#female-liberation #feminism #iraq #islam #women

C'est par le travail que la femme a conquis sa dignité d'être humain; mais ce fut une conquête singulièrement dure et lente. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#gender-equality #labour #equality

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#emancipation #women #freedom