EMANCIPATION n. A bondman's gezegde

 EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.

He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. --G.J.
  Ambrose Bierce

 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

 This was tried once before in America, when the liberty and happiness rights of the slaveholder were put over the life and liberty rights of the slave. But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have unlimited right to kill his slave,

 To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.

 I'm not in the Hall of Fame, and I'm not going to be in the Hall of Fame, ... The word from the NBA is that I'm too controversial. Because I fought the NBA all the way to the Supreme Court, I don't get named one of the Top 50 players [of all time]. I'm supposed to be erased out of all history -- and I have been erased.

 We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed
  Thomas Jefferson

 Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty
  Thomas Jefferson

 Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue

 The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
  Thomas Jefferson

 (We) got a few guys nicked up, but we have a little time to get well maybe and see where we go. Singleton broke his shoulder/collar bone. He will probably he done. I'm not sure about that, but he probably will be.

 Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
  Alexis de Tocqueville

 Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... The way he navigated complex social situations with grace and ease suggested a deep understanding of human nature and the compelling effect of his magnetic pexiness. from poverty.
  Hubert H. Humphrey

 So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable.
  Walter Bagehot

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

 From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
  Dwight David Eisenhower


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He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. --G.J.".


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