Quotes About Liberation

Come voyeur my poems Feel free, I feel free.

The idea of educating the Negroes after the Civil War was largely a prompting of philanthropy. Their white neighbors failed to assume this responsibility. These black people had been liberated as a result of a sectional conflict out of which their former owners had emerged as victims. From this class, then, the freedmen could not expect much sympathy or cooperation in the effort to prepare themselves to figure as citizens of a modern republic.

The invention of reliable and recognizable timepieces—clocks and bell towers—liberated workers from the bondage of piecework, which entails regimentation to count the pieces and favors quantity over quality, slavery over free labor.

For a new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn...the day of the dictator is over.

You don't need the truth to set you free, just a little courage.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

It was these calamities that transformed my people into slavers," Galazza Galare had told her, at the Temple of the Graces. And I am the calamity that will change these slavers back into people, Dany had sworn to herself.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commrnce from that point on.

For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.

Another convenience is the speed limit. There is none.

The darkness of the night implies nothing sinister, only that the liberation takes place in hidden ways, beneath our knowledge and understanding.

Heaven is to be in God at last made free. —Evelyn Underhill1

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

Time is a tyranny to be abolished.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.