Quotes About Liberation

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

You want to think of that person as being unlimited. Instead of thinking of them as being part of it, you want to think of them as being all of it. If you do that, it will take you away from the focus of being an illusion and result in a highly positive outcome. It will work. It will save you lifetimes of effort.

Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear.   DOWNTOWN

The test is in leaving the castle,' said the Supreme Grand Master. 'To give up all that came before and begin again with nothing.

La liberté, c'est le minotaure en dehors des murs.

when theologians read the Bible through the lens of the Exodus narrative, they are called "liberation theologians," but their counterparts who read it through the Greco-Roman narrative are never labeled "domination theologians" or "colonization theologians." Similarly, we have "black theology" and "feminist theology," but Greco-Roman orthodoxy is never called "white theology" or "male theology.

The only prison we can never escape is our brain, and yet our brain is what sets us free.

Obedience liberates me from the tiny world of the ego.

In the coming years the enslaved child, by then a man, would quote Auld's words often. They had sparked the crucial understanding that reading and knowledge were the keys to his freedom. Young as he was, Freddy saw that ignorance was a weapon in the hands of the slaveholder, one that was far more dangerous than the whip.

for the Capitol as a whole, being a 'real human being' lies precisely in freedom from the constraints of identity

Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free." The old man squinted one of his eyes and added, "How about that?

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Free your spirit.

Abitha laughed loud and hard, realized it was more than this bawdy song, it was being able to let her hair down, to be her vulgar, sassy self in front of someone again, even if that someone might be the Devil himself.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.

The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Love needs no chains.

Slaves are created with words, and so it is with words that we create, and set ourselves free.

I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.