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Quotes About Liberation

At times we must forgive others even when they don't deserve it. We forgive them because we deserve it. Free yourself.
~ DeWayne Owens
I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.
~ Spanish proverb
Wisdom frees men, even if they are in prison.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
You are only free when you can grow wings of wisdom to fly away from the cage of societal conformity.
~ Debasish Mridha
Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
~ Huey Newton
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
~ Wangari Maathai
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
A society can never be free without women's liberation
~ Abdullah Ocalan
The air is the only place free from prejudices.
~ Bessie Coleman
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women
~ Thomas Sankara
The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.
~ Pat Buchanan
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
~ Betty Friedan
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
~ Julie Burchill
The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman
~ Magnus Hirschfeld
Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?
~ Bob Hope
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
~ Shulamith Firestone
The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.
~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
~ Kate Millett
One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.
~ Eve Ensler