Quotes about Emancipation

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

Love sets you free the moment it arrests you.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

But there… that night… that moment, it was the first time I'd ever been cut free.

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

He had said that forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past. We

Your spouse, your friends, and your children cannot be the sources of your identity.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chain.)

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.

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.

Dance. Dance, Zarité. The slave who dances is free while he is dancing.' He told me. I have always danced.