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Quotes About Liberation

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
~ Huey Newton
Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.
~ Haile Selassie
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.
~ Clifford Geertz
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
~ Lionel Trilling
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.
~ John Irving
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.
~ Mike Pence
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
~ George W. Bush
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
~ Coretta Scott King
'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.
~ Corey Hart
In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.
~ Veruschka von Lehndorff
The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.
~ Alberto Fujimori
John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
~ Claudio Hummes
It was my time with The New Day that allowed me to be free and to be uninhibited. I just learned to trust myself, trust my instincts, and be unafraid.
~ Big E
I think my confidence came when I turned 30. I don't know, something about turning 30 has been unbelievable. I just feel a sense of freedom.
~ Ali Krieger
The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.
~ Jodi Benson
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.
~ Kim Young-sam
Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.
~ David O. McKay
I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.
~ Omar El Akkad, American War
Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Come with me and take back your lives!
~ Eric Mrozek, Destruction
It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.
~ Duop Chak Wuol