Quotes about Emancipation

Freedom is from within.

This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Marcus sought by-laws to protect the weak, to make the lot of the slaves less hard, to stand in place of father to the fatherless.

Forgiving people doesn't necessarily mean you want to meet them for lunch. It means you try to undo the Velcro hook. Lewis Smedes said it best: "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Seeking to be free of something and freed to something.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.