#emancipation

They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#emancipation #feel #form #how #issued

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

#being #bottom #emancipation #felt #figure

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

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

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

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

#education #emancipation #freeman #half #hands

Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#answers #destination #emancipation #life-lessons #love