Quotes about Emancipation

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.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

I 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.

I surrender myself, that I might be used in bringing the end of suffering to all

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

Redemption is that process by which the soul is trained for heaven. This training means a knowledge of Christ. It means emancipation from ideas, habits, and practices that have been gained in the school of the prince of darkness. The soul must be delivered from all that is opposed to loyalty to God.

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?