Emancipation Of Slaves Quotes

#1. It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Peter Benenson

#3. The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

Tom Allen

#4. Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

John Sergeant Wise

#5. You should be," she said. "Look what happened to Julius Caesar when he underestimated those around him." So we went out to the

Gary D. Schmidt

#6. We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

R.D. Laing

#7. Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Carroll O'Connor

#8. In our quest for happiness many times we evade the truth and remain unhappy. The truth lies within our hearts, regarding faith, family and inner peace. To love yourself is the largest truth you'll ever have. It's there where happiness begins.

Ron Baratono

#9. The future is a devious thing.

Brian Lumley

#10. Emancipation - 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

#11. The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

Lester Roloff

#12. The new people were something else before they were white - Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish - and if all our national hopes have any fulfillment, then they will have to be something else again. Perhaps

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#13. Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

Boyd K. Packer

#14. Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss