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Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

— Henry Charles Carey

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

No emancipation without that of society.

— Theodor Adorno

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

— Robert Charles Winthrop

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

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

— Barbara Castle

Education is freedom.

— Paulo Freire

✗Opposing Perspectives

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

— Grace Abbott

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

— Rick Santorum

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

— Wendell Willkie