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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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• 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

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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

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

  Carter G. Woodson

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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

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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, s*x, or color.

  Ernestine Rose

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

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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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

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• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  Victoria Woodhull

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