Quotes About Liberation

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

I did not find living alone difficult. In fact, it was such a liberating feeling because simple things like ironing my clothes, doing laundry, making my bed made me feel independent and gave me the sense of accomplishment that I can do it myself.

When we truly understand that the tribe doesn't give a damn, we're free. There is no tribe, and there never was. Our lives are entirely up to us.

Suspending self-judgment doesn't just mean blowing off the "You suck" voice in our heads. It also means liberating ourselves from conventional expectations—from what we think our work "ought" to be or "should" look like.

Jesus said, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:31-32).

Knowing the truth liberates us from all possibility of deception and illuminates any darkness in our life.

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.

It had felt liberating to acknowledge this to himself and others, to shed his painful sense of the obligation to be somehow remarkable; but it left him with the unanswered question of what to do with his life, and simultaneously the realization that working on the novel endlessly had been a way to avoid facing that question.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

You think there's no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat.

Be careful, you can get enslaved twice, once in your body and once in your mind.

Psychotherapist Anne Wilson Schaef compares living in patriarchy to living in polluted air. "When you are in the middle of pollution, you are usually unaware of it. You eat in it, sleep in it, work in it, and sooner or later start believing that is just the way the air is," she writes.41

I heard mauma say, I don't spec to get free. The only way I'm getting free is for you to get free.

I said, "Why should we contain God any longer in our poor and narrow conceptions, which are so often no more than grandiose reflections of ourselves? Let us set him free.

A shiver ran through me. Leave your cage. It had been a month and a half since the sickness had first appeared in the city.

Once again we were in captivity.

Well, that's not what the Bible preaches. It says if you know the truth, it'll set you free.

I tell you, there are times when words are so glad to be set free they laugh out loud and prance across their tablets and inside their scrolls. So it was with the words I wrote. They reveled till dawn.

She was taking her own liberties with him. Was this liberation?

the five-thousand-year-old kingdom of Korea was divided by the Allies who liberated it from Japan, that everything went wrong.

Koreans' love–hate relationship with Japan carries on to this day, compounded by their relationship with the superpowers who took over where Japan left off: the United States and the Soviet Union, who together liberated Korea only to carve it up as a proxy for the Cold War.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.