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Quotes & Wishes collections Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
A necessary preliminaryA study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
John Maynard Keynes Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
A war measureEmancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Wendell Willkie Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
Almost two years laterThe Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.
Corrine Brown Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
An expensive giftFreedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!
Marck E. Estemil Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
Arbitrary rule of other menFreedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adler Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
Double emancipationNo slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Thomas Huxley Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
Emancipation ProclamationThe President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.
Salmon P. Chase Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonderI always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
In a world of democraciesIn a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
Roberto Unger Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
LiberalismLiberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
On a road towards emancipationMerely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
Steven Biko Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
SimplyEmancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedomThe arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it’s Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women’s rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.
James McGreevey Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
The progression of emancipationThe progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
Harriet Martineau Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
The safest and the surest emancipationIf the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
John Acton Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation Day»
UntilUntil justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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