Quotes about Emancipation
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
- William Paul Young
Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.
- Louise Hay
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
- Tracie Peterson
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
- Toni Morrison
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
- DH Lawrence
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
- Abraham Lincoln
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
- Corrie Ten Boom
If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.
- Tony Campolo
The best way to progress is the path of freedom.
- John F. Kennedy
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
- Muhammad Ali