Quotes About Liberation

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

In my experience I've learned women are better streakers.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

When I got divorced I was so happy. I love to be spontaneous, I was enjoying my freedom.

The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one's life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.

The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

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

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.