If you could pick one sentence from the Emancipation Proclamation that best characterizes the document, what would it be? Explain your choice.

"that on the first day of January, in the year of our lord on thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves with any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall than be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"

this is the main reason that this document was made