Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.