Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Emancipation

• Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, Men, President

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.432, Penguin

• It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Virginia, Looks, Rising

• There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heaven, Way, Emancipation

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