Quotes About Liberation

Todos los hombres son esclavos. Ellos lo han querido así. Solo Dios puede liberarlos. Él, que les dio la libertad en el nacimiento, aunque ellos hayan renunciado siempre a ella y siempre renuncien.

Of course beauty has been used as a tool of oppression, but eliminating beauty is not the answer; you can't liberate people by narrowing the scope of their experiences.

Of course beauty has been used as a tool of oppression, but eliminating beauty is not the answer; you can't liberate people by narrowing the scope of their experiences. That's positively Orwellian. What's needed is a woman-centered concept of beauty, one that lets all women feel good about themselves instead of making most of them feel bad.

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person.

I love being naked. I'm a free spirit.

The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.

When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.