Quotes about Emancipation
A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chain.)
- Leonard Ravenhill
She had been locked in a self-imposed shell, stiff and serious and afraid to feel. But that was in the past now. She was free, in many senses for the very first time, liberated to live and laugh — and love.
- Janette Oke
Today the nanas have become so emancipated that the lords of their domains prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Peru, whom they can mistreat as badly as they used to their Chilean servant girls.
- Isabel Allende
Dance. Dance, Zarité. The slave who dances is free while he is dancing.' He told me. I have always danced.
- Isabel Allende
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
- Abraham Lincoln
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
- Abraham Lincoln
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.
- Susan May Warren
True freedom only occurs when we break off the shackles of fear and embrace a culture of mercy and grace.
- Kris Vallotton
from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?
- JM Coetzee
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer