(21 quotes found)
“Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.”
Anton Chekhov
“The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.”
Charles Baudelaire
“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind”
John Maynard Keynes
“So the Proclamation of Emancipation, has come at last, or rather its forerunner. I suppose you are all very much excited about it. For my part, I can't see what practical good it can do now. Wherever our army has been there remain no slaves, and the Proclamation will not free them where we don't go.”
Robert Gould Shaw
“Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing . . . this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. it shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.”
Thomas Jefferson
“"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or "against us". Emancipation, will strike at the heart of the rebellion." Said to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The Emancipation of Mimi”
Green Day
“The law gave him permission to marry. It emancipated him. Under the law, he's an adult.”
Daniel Sammons
“Dualism only hinders Âgender emancipation’”
Father Mark Montebello
“We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
