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Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by the United States. So he felt obliged to fight Americans in the ring. He felt the whole pride of his country and the need for cultural and political emancipation in his hands.

~Edgar Ramirez

Topics: America American Basically Because Country Cultural Emancipation Felt Fight Figure Grew Hands He His Latin Latin America Need Obliged Occupied Panama Political Pride Ring States Time Turbulence United United States Up Whole

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Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Beings Cease Emancipation Feet Held Henceforth Human Human Beings Meant Necks Off Our Property Shall Should Simply Slaves Take Treated

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Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Act Any Conviction Emancipation Free Master Must Performed Propriety Slave Value Voluntary

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The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Bible Block Canon Church Emancipation Greatest Law Priesthood Today Way Woman

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

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Been Bible Blocks Church Emancipation Greatest Stumbling Way Women

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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Affirmation Century Emancipation Greatest History Intense Most Movement Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Practically Right Seen Self Women

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I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

~Emily Procter

Topics: Always Being Bottom Emancipation Felt Figure Fitted Fold Grown-Up Had How My Own Out Own Sheet Truly Up

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Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Artificial Being Confronted Desires Emancipation External Free Herself Made Merely Modern Modern Woman Necessity Now Really She Woman

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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

Topics: Bondage Color Distinction Emancipation Every Go Human Human Rights Kind Party Principle Recognition Rights Sex Without

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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

~Felicity Jones

Topics: About Defined Emancipation Female Going How Kind Like Look Mother Much Origins She Very Who You

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