enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Redemption Song - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption_Song

    We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind ...

  3. 1862 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862_State_of_the_Union...

    The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.

  4. Protest songs in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_songs_in_the...

    The song urges listeners to "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "none but ourselves can free our minds." The 1960s also saw a number of successful protest songs from the opposite end of the spectrum – the political right, which supported the war.

  5. Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln's_second...

    Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on Saturday, March 4, 1865, during his second inauguration as President of the United States.At a time when victory over secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery in all of the U.S. was near an end, Lincoln did not speak of happiness, but of sadness.

  6. Cooper Union speech - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Union_speech

    Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure.

  7. Being and Nothingness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness

    We try to bring the beloved's consciousness to the surface of their body by use of magical acts performed, gestures (kisses, desires, etc.), but at the moment of orgasm the illusion is ended and we return to ourselves, just as it is ended when the skier comes to the foot of the mountain or when the commodity that once we desired loses its glow ...

  8. Abolitionism in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United...

    By 1860, 91.7% of the blacks in Delaware and 49.7% of those in Maryland were free. Such early free families often formed the core of artisans, professionals, preachers, and teachers in future generations. [129] However, this did not signal racial equality. Though free from slavery, blacks still faced immense discrimination.

  9. Liberation by Oppression - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_by_Oppression

    Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry is a 2002 critique of psychiatry by the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Summary