Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
Ignorance is not bliss its painful and embarrassing
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.