Definition of Emancipation
Emancipation
The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.
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Emancipation Quotations
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.
John Adams
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
Carter G. Woodson
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Thomas Huxley
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
Grace Kelly
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
No emancipation without that of society.
Theodor Adorno
Emancipation Translations
emancipation in German is Emanzipation
emancipation in Italian is emancipazione
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