Emancipation Of Slavery Quotes

#1. No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. - Author: Thomas Huxley

#2. Even at the End of Days, there will be lap dancing. - Author: Chris Rose

#3. Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict. - Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#4. He had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. - Author: Ambrose Bierce

#5. The only prison we can be is prison of our mind. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. - Author: I. F. Stone

#7. While politicians contend, and men are swerved this way and that by conflicting tides of interest and passion, the great cause of human liberty is in the hands of one ... who shall not fail nor be discouraged ... - Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

#8. We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day. - Author: Anthony Carmona

#9. Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. - Author: John Dryden

#10. Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. - Author: Robert Charles Winthrop

#11. As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. - Author: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

#12. Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion. - Author: Ralph Ellison

#13. Oh, become nothing in deep reality, and, as a worker, study only one thing - to become poorer and lower and more helpless, that Christ may work all in you. - Author: Andrew Murray

#14. People are incorrigibly themselves. - Author: John Updike

#15. Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence. - Author: Karl Marx

#16. I'm not one of those people who holds a grudge about anything. - Author: Cheryl Cole

#17. I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming. - Author: Bruce Lee

#18. In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians. - Author: Karl Marx

#19. I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something - Author: Zach Braff

#20. [O]nce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like. - Author: Tim Minchin

#21. It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.
("For The Rest Of Her Life") - Author: Cornell Woolrich

#22. On January 9, 1863, nine days after Lincoln ended slavery by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, - Author: Doug Most

#23. People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. - Author: Joan Rivers

#24. A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar, - and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women, - before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life. - Author: Frederick Douglass

#25. Where there are drones, there will always be police. Where there are police, there will always be violence. - Author: Ian McDonald

#26. We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign. - Author: Marcus Garvey

#27. All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation. - Author: Heraclitus

#28. she'd find she liked Gabriella. - Author: Nora Roberts