Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Devil's Dictionary: Emancipation (n.)

A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.

(And I certainly can't pass up the opportunity to remind you of the schoolboy who, in an essay for his history class, informed his suprised instructor that "Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with the Emasculation Proclamation.")

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