Quotes about Emancipation
But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
- Ayn Rand
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth
- Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen.
- Abraham Lincoln
True love frees us, and at the same time it binds us:
- Leonard Sweet
Freedom is now or never.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom!Oh, freedom over me!And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,And go home to my Lord and be free.
- Anonymous
In the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
- Anonymous
Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Anonymous
Free at last, free at last,Thank God Almighty, we're free at last.
- Anonymous
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
- Anonymous
I spent most of my adult life trying to get as far away from my folks as possible.
- Oliver Luck