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Quotes About Liberation

I've learned things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn't really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.
~ Julie Andrews
I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn't really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.
~ Julie Andrews
Y que el placer que juntos inventamos sea otro signo de libertad.
~ Julio Cortazar
las otras dos parejas vivían ya ese tiempo en que la charla en grupo liberaba antagonismos, ventila diferencias que la intimidad acalla.
~ Julio Cortazar
The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery, and for a long time he couldn't remember why he felt this way, and then he said her name.
~ Junot Diaz
He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.
~ Justin Cronin
Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now; you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth.
~ Justine Picardie
Si tus ligaduras no son quebrantadas mientras vives ¿Qué esperanza de liberación puedes tener en la muerte?
~ Kabir
Kako lahko nekdo, ki je v okovih, osvobodi okovanega ?loveka? Odrešitev pri?akuj le od nekoga, ki je že svoboden.
~ Kabir
Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I have broken away from the clutch of all narrowness.
~ Kabir
He reminded MacLeish of the "profound part that culture and society play in the very definition of human values, human salvation and liberation." Therefore, "I think that what is needed is something far subtler than the emancipation of the individual from society; it involves, with an awareness that the past one hundred and fifty years have rendered progressively more acute, the basic dependence of man on his fellows.
~ Kai Bird
That summer of 1928, Robert was also reading the 1922 novel The Enormous Room, an account by e. e. cummings of his four-month incarceration in a French wartime prison camp. He loved cummings' notion that a man stripped of all his possessions can nevertheless find personal freedom in the most spartan of surroundings. The story would take on a new meaning for him after 1954.
~ Kai Bird
The man who knows that he lives in a prison will find a way to break free of it. But the one who believes that he is free while being imprisoned will remained imprisoned forever.
~ Kapil Gupta
You've always been told to fight for your freedom Of mind. But the truth is this: the greatest freedom in the world is freedom From mind.
~ Kapil Gupta
Man's greatest dilemma is that he lives in a prison and he believes that he is free.
~ Kapil Gupta
Douglas wondered if his friend would make it out of this alive. He realized, not for the first time, that life or death was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the mission, their own small attempt to "proclaim liberty to the captives," as the Book of Isaiah had commanded nearly three thousand years before. To engage in a war where there would be no material benefit for the victor other than the liberation of oppressed and victimized human beings.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.
~ Roxane Gay
That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
~ Boris Johnson
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
~ Elizabeth Dole
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.
~ John B. Keane
No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that.
~ Tom Tancredo
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.
~ Ezekiel Emanuel
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
~ Harry Mathews