/ ĭ-măn'sə-pā'shən /, noun:
1. freedom from legal, social or political restraint or oppression
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men." - Mortimer J. Adler, 1902 - 2001
2. the act or condition of being freed from slavery "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, 1908 - 1973 Abraham Lincoln: February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865 "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." - Abraham Lincoln