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Quotes About Liberation

i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
~ AVA., you are safe here.
This was different, spontaneous, unrestricted. This was what dancing was supposed to feel like - like freedom.
~ Anam Iqbal, The Whyte Divide
If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
These emerging Christian leaders realize that if their message isn't good news for the poor, a message of liberation for the oppressed, it isn't the same message Jesus proclaimed.
~ Brian D. McLaren
Cool. So glad I got to do all this in a towel.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage? she prayed desperately.
~ Buchi Emecheta
Isn't it marvelous to discover that you're the one you've been waiting for? That you are your own freedom?
~ Byron Katie
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
~ C.D. Wright
He lets me fly.
~ C.E. Murphy
The liberation of finding yourself at rock bottom. No risk of falling any deeper into shit.
~ Camilla Lackberg
a woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle
~ Candace Bushnell
Literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. But there are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.
~ Carl Sagan
Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.
~ Carl Sagan
Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.
~ Carl Sagan
Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The road to this paradise was not so comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has proved itself as trustworthy, and I have never regretted having chosen it.
~ Carl Sagan
MUCH OF HUMAN HISTORY can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.
~ Carl Sagan
There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.
~ Carl Sagan
Jesus hung out with whores and social outcasts, was remarkably casual about sex, disapproved of the family... urged us to be laid-back about property and possessions, warned his followers that they too would die violently, and insisted that the truth kills and divides as well as liberates. He also cursed self-righteous prigs and deeply alarmed the ruling class
~ Terry Eagleton
The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation.
~ Terry Eagleton
We don't want to lose you Lord Rahl. We don't want to go back to way things were. She sounded on the verge of tears. We like being able to do simple things, like make a joke, and laugh. We could never do such things before. We always lived in fear that if we said the wrong thing we would be beaten, or worse. Now that we have seen another way, we don't want to go back to that. If you throw your life away for the Midlands, then we will.- Cara
~ Terry Goodkind
Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.
~ Terry Goodkind
Is It Frightening To Be Free? You said it. You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves? Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
~ Terry Pratchett
I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.
~ Terry Pratchett
They couldn't do anything worse to him than he had coming to him already. He felt free at last.
~ Terry Pratchett