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Quotes About Liberation

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.
~ George Voinovich
Be free to do what you want to... before the time is through.
~ RSCruz
There is no necessity to live by the clock.
~ Patricia Clapp, Jane-Emily
We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.
~ Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
~ Pope John Paul II
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.
~ Shulamith Firestone
Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.
~ Longchenpa
I do not want to spend another minute of whatever I have left bein' scared. I can't carry the fear anymore. Not mine. Not yours. I have to lay that burden down.
~ Mary Doria Russell
A curious mind probing for truth may well set your scribbling ass free.
~ Mary Karr
Three Things to Remember As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.
~ Mary Oliver
I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
~ Mary Oliver
As long as you're dancing, you can Break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just Extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.
~ Mary Oliver
Truly I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild and want it back. So if someday you can't find me you might look into that tree or—of course it's possible—under it.
~ Mary Oliver
You broke the cage and flew.
~ Mary Oliver
I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild and want it back.
~ Mary Oliver
If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire we might nearly be free
~ Mary Shelley
on the 11th the passage towards the south became perfectly free. When the sailors saw this, and that their return to their native country was apparently assured, a shout of tumultuous joy broke from them, loud and long-continued. Frankenstein, who
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive, well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, 'Woo-hoo! What a ride.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Getting richer is not the only or even the best way of getting happier. Social and political liberation is far more effective, says the political scientist Ronald Ingleheart: the big gains in happiness come from living in a society that frees you to make choices about your lifestyle – about where to live, who to marry, how to express your sexuality and so on.
~ Matt Ridley
Dante had done what so many writers could only imagine—turned poetry into a living power, and a living power was something no one could cage inside the covers of a book.
~ Matthew Pearl
He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don't know it. How
~ Matthieu Ricard
Women can stand on the Empire State Building and scream to the heavens that they are equal to men and liberated, but until they have the same anatomy, it's a lie. It's more of a man's world today than ever. Men can eat their cake in unlimited bakeries.
~ Maureen Dowd
At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains.
~ Ayn Rand