And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
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.
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U. S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
Well, before the New Deal. . . [The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.
The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.
The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.
. . . perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large.
The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who. . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?
