#emancipation

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

— Mortimer Adler

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Hear the heartbeats of a nation silenced together on the impatient winds of change, And deafen your ears to the words of one. Melodized by emancipation.. Then open your eyes, open your eyes for me: Darling, freedom to you is a freedom to none. ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#freedom #nation #change

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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

— George Will

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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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

— Carter G. Woodson

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Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. ↗

— Grace Kelly

#emancipation #lose #made #mystery #their

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. ↗

— Ellen Key

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#history #mind #necessary #opinion #preliminary

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

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