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ordem executiva emitida pelo presidente Abraham Lincoln em 1 de janeiro de 1863 que libertou os escravos do sul
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“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skin, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. To the extent that the proclamation of emancipation is not fulfilled in fact, to that extent, we have fallen short of assuring freedom to the freed.”
“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.”
“The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it’s Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women’s rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.”
“Twenty years have passed since that event; it is almost too new in history to make a great impression, but the time will come when it will loom up as one of the greatest of man's achievements, and the name of Abraham Lincoln — who of his own will struck the shackles from the limbs of four millions of people — will be honored thousands of years from now as man's name was never honored before.”
“If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.”
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A Proclamação de Emancipação, oficialmente Proclamação 95, foi uma proclamação presidencial e ordem executiva emitida pelo presidente dos Estados Unidos Abraham Lincoln em 1 de janeiro de 1863, durante a Guerra Civil Americana. A Proclamação mudou o status legal de mais de 3,5 milhões de afro-americanos escravizados nos estados confederados secessionistas de escravizados para livres. Assim que os escravos escapavam do controle de seus escravizadores, seja fugindo para as linhas da União ou através do avanço das tropas federais, eles ficavam permanentemente livres. Além disso, a Proclamação permitia que ex-escravos "fossem recebidos no serviço armado dos Estados Unidos". A Proclamação de Emancipação desempenhou um papel significativo no fim da escravidão nos Estados Unidos.
