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emancipate

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1. emancipate - Adjective

2. emancipate - Verb

Meaning

To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.

To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.

Set at liberty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. Errico Malatesta

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Bob Marley

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time. Bob Marley

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. C. L. R. James

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free. Edith Wharton

Emancipate yourself from the idea of a celestial dictatorship and you've taken the first step to becoming free. Christopher Hitchens

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