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Quotes About Liberation

The dark night is a profoundly good thing. It is an ongoing spiritual process in which we are liberated from attachments and compulsions and empowered to live and love more freely.
~ Gerald G. May
It is not that they are unconcerned with social liberation and justice, but that they are convinced such transformation will happen only through the changing of individual hearts.
~ Gerald G. May
There were no golden trumpets to proclaim our freedom. There were no liberators in sight.
~ Gerda Weissmann Klein
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.
~ Germaine Greer
The Underground Railroad was the first integrated civil rights movement. And it's a great example of when we work together, what we can go against. Which is 600 miles of crazy terrain being chased by slave catchers to get people to be what they should be in the first case - which is free.
~ Misha Green
You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.
~ Ahmed Chalabi
I'm a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of bondage, even economic bondage, is slavery.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it.
~ Kris Kristofferson
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
~ Leon Jouhaux
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
~ Anne Sullivan
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
~ J. G. Ballard
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
~ Karl Marx
The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
~ Ahmed Ben Bella
People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
~ Ed Koch
I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.
~ Shirley Manson
There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.
~ Brendan Myers
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.
~ James Buchan
Us?ysz mnie, dostrze? mnie, dotknij mnie, kochaj mnie, uwolnij mnie!
~ Sarah Kane
If I could be free of you without having to lose you.
~ Sarah Kane
Was I a whore? Hell, no. I was a typical woman who was sexually in tune with her body, one who enjoyed everything about sex and exploring the human body.' An Unforgettable Summer featured in Summer Romances
~ Sarah Stein
and at last, like a portly matron letting out the laces of her stays, she was herself again.
~ Sarah Waters
She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...
~ Sarah Waters
Even ashes are a part of your freedom.
~ Sarah Waters
liberating when your strongest
~ Sarah Young