Quotes About Liberation

We have become so used to the occupier's contempt and his determination to maintain his stranglehold, whatever the cost, that any semblance of generosity or any sign of goodwill is greeted with surprise and jubilation.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

While the body may be trapped in this place, the mind is always free to roam wherever it feels safe.

cercava di sostituire la parola scrivania con la parola tavolo … in scrivania sentiva prigionia, agonia, tirannia. Mentre in tavolo sentiva il fruscio di un refolo, il sibilo del volo. Tavolo fluttuava, scrivania no.

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

We have a belief that we need not believe in, no dogmas, no ritual, no mythology, no church, no priest, no holy book--what a relief!

Hitler's own people 'liberated' from him? The Viennese and other Austrians, so many of whom had ecstatically welcomed the annexation of the country to the Reich in March 1938, now suddenly so patriotic for the Red-and-White, so insistent that they were not actually 'German' at all?

To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put an end to it once and for all. There is a way out of this mess humanity has found itself in. It's just that the answer to the cause of suffering — and the way to end it — are nothing at all like what you think they are or imagine they should be.

Even if the whole universe is nothing but a bunch of jerks doing all kinds of jerk-type things, there is still liberation in simply not being a jerk.

Even if the whole world is nothing but a bunch of jerks doing all kinds of jerk-type things, there is still liberation in simply not being a jerk.

I vow to save all beings ...from myself.

Freedom is within our grasp, and Pesach reminds us that we need to reach.

We write to free ourselves and help others.

His life had become a pathetic parable of alienation, a self-imposed banishment. Being alone made him feel simultaneously liberated and isolated.

Yes. Fortunately, before I died, I put a plan into motion. I can't remember it, but I'm certain that it was brilliant." "You know, I've said something similar myself on occasion, after a night of drinking." Kelsier rubbed his chin. "I'm free too.

She had spent months as a knife, held immobile at someone's throat. It was time to cut.

What is a just punishment for enslaving my entire race?

The acceptance comes largely in the form of embracing Liberation Theology, the merging of Marxism and Christianity, hence, my term, Marxianity.

Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.