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Quotes About Liberation

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.
~ C. F. Ramuz
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
~ Carl Jung
Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
~ Toni Morrison
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
~ Robert Burchfield
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
~ James A. Garfield
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~ Voltaire
The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
~ Hortense Calisher
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
~ Marianne Williamson
The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
~ Phyllis Diller
'Nothing to lose' means I can go out there and try to play like I'm playing, without pressure, without nothing.
~ Angelique Kerber
The idea of printing out something that's as scary as a tumor into its concrete form was something that spoke to me - there is something very liberating about that idea.
~ Jens Lekman
My advice to anyone is to try to go cold turkey of make-up and fake tan and see how liberating it feels.
~ Emily Atack
Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he's now turned himself into a murderous despot.
~ George Ayittey
Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.
~ Neil Bush
In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!
~ Jasmine Guinness
Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.
~ Billy Howle
I now have the experience of life and all I've seen. I came in when I was in my twenties and I wasn't prepared to be an actor. Then there was my sabbatical, my accident and I was single-parenting my kids. Your mind expands, you become mature and you feel liberated. I don't care about being conventional. I want to be daring.
~ Arvind Swami
Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.
~ Phil Ochs
I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
~ Lauren DeStefano
I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.
~ Libba Bray
I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
~ Mary Oliver
It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.
~ Meg Ryan