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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

~A. Philip Randolph

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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

~Angela Davis

Topics: Always Been Black Certain Certain Extent Class Economic Emancipation Extent Inevitable Liberation Means Middle Middle Class People Quest Rise Sense Which Would

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Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

~Annie Lennox

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We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

~Anthony Carmona

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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.

~Arthur L. Herman

Topics: Alone Along American Arnold Betrays Cannot Cause Declaration Deepest Dye Emancipation Every Independence Know Lived Millions Moral Mount Only Proclamation Sacred Someone Tell Traitor Way Who Wrote You

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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.

~Barry Goldwater

Topics: Been Conformity Creative Despotism Differences Emancipation Equality Fathers First Founding Founding Fathers Leads Liberty Our Our Time Rightly Then Time Tragically Understood Wrongly

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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Capitalism Emancipation Ended Hereditary Living Most Raised Standard Weaknesses Women World

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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

~Carter G. Woodson

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The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

~Corrine Brown

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Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.

~Dayananda Saraswati

Topics: Birth Death Emancipation Endurance God Happiness Immensity Liberty Life Pain Salvation State

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