Quotes about Emancipation
On the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.
— Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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