Quotes about Emancipation
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners… ISAIAH 61:1 NIV
- Joyce Meyer
People need freedom.
- Joyce Meyer
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,No more modest than immodest.Unscrew the locks from the doors!Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
- Walt Whitman
The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.
- Walter Brueggemann
The emancipatory gift of YHWH to Israel is contrasted with all the seductions of images. The memory of the exodus concerns the God of freedom who frees.
- Walter Brueggemann
Today unbind the captive,So only are ye unbound;Lift up a people from the dust,Trump of their rescue, sound!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.
- Anonymous
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
- Abraham Lincoln