No emancipation without that of society.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

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.

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.

No emancipation without that of society.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

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.