67 Quotes About Emancipation

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

Sie [Lorena] sagte, das Niveau der Barbarei einer Gesellschaft messe sich an der Distanz, die sie zwischen die Frauen und die Bücher zu bringen versuchte. "Nichts erschüttert einen Kaffer so sehr wie eine Frau, die lesen, schreiben und denken kann und obendrein noch die Knie zeigt.

Sometimes, survival is about navigating the thin line between rage and joy

The first principles upon which the Paris working-men agreed with the British trade-unionists and Owenites, when they met in 1862 and 1864, at London, was that "the emancipation of the working-men must be accomplished by the working-men themselves.

Ignorance is not bliss its painful and embarrassing

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

As we analyse, criticise, propose and strategise, let's never forget that we are all part of a vast mutual liberation society, that as we work to free others, they are also working to free us.

The Underground Railroad has several stations in the [Welsh] Mountains, and secrecy was not just a buzzword, as breaking the code of silence could mean death. The justice meted out in the Mountains was sure and swift, making it different from that in the surrounding community. The laws were meant to protect the security of the community, and not just the individual person.

To make our emancipation actual will require both our political mobilizations and our rational arguments; it will require our general strikes and our systematic reflections, our labor and our love, our anxiety and our passion.