Quotes About Liberation

As the Taliban circled the bazaar in their Toyota pickup trucks, the ice cream is no longer my enemy. Sunita is risking her life for this pleasure. She is sharing it with me. Finally, my being fat is clearly less important than being free. I eat the ice cream.

Só a forma mais elevada de arte pode insistir que nós não apenas possamos descobrir nossas realidades como também transformá-las para além do que somos estimulados e condicionados a aceitar.

That dreadful consciousness of a narrow and limiting I-hood which dogs our search for freedom and full life, is done away. For a moment, at least, the independent spiritual life is achieved. The contemplative is merged in it "like a bird in the air, like a fish in the sea": loses to find and dies to live.

The classical liberal is someone who stands for freedom, for liberty and for liberation. What we see today within the American academy is the shutting down of ideas. We see ideological fascism rather than academic freedom. The conservative voice is actually more classically liberal because we're arguing for an open, robust exchange of ideas. Why? Because we can trust truth to judge the debate rather than politics or power."

A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.

You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another.

You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down. Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground.

Frederick Douglass saw the same connection. When his master heard that young Frederick was reading well, he was furious, saying, "Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. If he learns to read the Bible it will forever unfit him to be a slave." Douglass recalled that he "instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

It seemed to me when I wrote The Life and Loves of a She-Devil that women were so much in the habit of being good it would do nobody any harm if they learned to be a little bad - that is to say, burn down their houses, give away their children, put their husband in prison, steal his money and turn themselves into their husband's mistress.

Real religion should be something that liberates men [sic]. But churches don't want free men [sic] who can think for themselves and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

Song of the Barren Orange Tree" Woodcutter. Cut out my shadow. Free me from the torture of seeing myself fruitless. Why was I born among mirrors? The daylight revolves around me. And the night herself repeats me in all her constellations. I want to live not seeing self. I shall dream the husks and insects change inside my dreaming into my birds and foliage. Woodcutter. Cut out my shadow. Free me from the torture

Mi vida ha sido siempre una repetida historia: me la paso liberándome de mitos, de gentes y de cosas; ahora me libero de mí mismo.

Truth brings utter freedom

Get me outta these ropes and into a good belt of Scotch.

If some of those who listen to our sermons reject the message, that is not our worry - as long as it is truly the kerygma that we preach, and not some feeble imitation of it. Rejection is built into the vocation of the preacher. But hear this: The incarnate Word of God is a mighty sword put into your hand. Those who hear it will feel their chains cut off, their prison unlocked, their lungs filled with oxygen:

All bondage is an illusion of the race consciousness. There is always a way out of every situation, under grace. Every man is free to do the will of God.

Think of the joy of really being free forever, from the Pharaoh of the oppression. To have the idea of security, health, happiness and abundance established in the subconscious. It would mean a life free from all limitation!

Refuse to be a slave of anything on earth.

The Bible is a profoundly liberating document, but there is no denying that it also contains deeply problematic texts—indeed, "texts of terror"2 that have adversely impacted the lives of women, slaves, Jews, Palestinians, Native Americans, and gays (to mention but a few). Such texts and prevalent interpretations of them may be described as "tyrannical" in the sense that they have legitimated the right of some to exercise unjust power or control over others. They

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift—the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

At the bitter end of an era of liberation—women's lib, kids' lib, animal lib, and everything-but-ethics lib—America has apparently been liberated from its moral foundations. But for too many, the good life has become a living hell.

An unbelieving world may say otherwise, but so-called "sexual liberation" is actually sexual slavery—slavery to our own lusts.

Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness—adoption into His family—fellowship with His people—freedom from the penalty of sin—liberation from the power of sin.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.