#emancipation

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. ↗

— Grace Kelly

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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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

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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

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

— Mortimer Adler

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In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. ↗

— Roberto Unger

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Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself. ↗

— Bruce Lee

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

— Virginia Woolf

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