Emancipation Quotes

• Certain Socialist writers are fond of describing the Social-Democratic State of the future as implying the "emancipation of the proletarian and the woman." As regards the latter point, however, if emancipation is taken to include domination, we have not to wait so long. The highest development of modern capitalism, as exemplified in the English-speaking countries, has placed man to all intents and purposes, legally under the heel of woman. So far as the relations of the sexes are concerned, it would be the task of Socialism to emancipate man from this position, if sex-equality be the goal aimed at. The first step on the road towards such equality would necessarily consist in the abolition of modern female privilege.

  

  Ernest Belfort Bax
  • Goal
  • Development
  • Writers

• At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Write
  • Emancipation
  • Histories

• The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Church
  • Bible
  • Emancipation

• If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws it open.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Slavery
  • Labor
  • Relations

• Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wise
  • Terror
  • Emancipation

• In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

  

  Roberto Unger
  • Democracy
  • Cultures
  • Entrenched

• But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.

  

  Alice Schwarzer
  • Ignore
  • Iran
  • Emancipation

• ... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • War
  • Woman
  • Learned

• One of the fundamental challenges of emancipation in South Africa is for the emancipated to avoid the conceptual trap of ascribing to the past of white racism centrality of explanation.

  

  Njabulo S Ndebele
  • Racism
  • Explanation
  • Emancipation

• I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

  

  David Walker
  • Fire
  • Doomed
  • Emancipation

• Our emancipation means standing up for strong families, our emancipation means standing against the homosexuality agenda, emancipation for us means standing up against the repealing of the buggery law.

  

  Alvin Bailey
  • Law
  • Standing
  • Emancipation

• I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Power
  • Emancipation
  • Corrupted

• The United States was not the only nation to experience emancipation in the nineteenth century. Neither plantation slavery nor abolition were unique to the United States. But Reconstruction was.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Experience
  • Slavery
  • United States

• Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Recognition
  • Human Rights
  • Bondage

• The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Universe
  • Purpose
  • Happiness

• Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Tears
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

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