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Quotes About Liberation

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.
~ Gautama Buddha
You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
~ Vilayat Inayat Khan
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!
~ Halldor Laxness
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
~ Havelock Ellis
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
~ Immanuel Kant
The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.
~ John F. Kennedy
Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
~ Joseph Campbell
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
~ Anton Chekhov
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.
~ Maya Angelou
I am the best male ally I have ever heard of for women and women's liberation.
~ Harvey Jackins
They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.
~ James Oppenheim
The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.
~ Katherine Sophie Dreier
I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
~ Kenny Loggins
Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.
~ Swami Vivekananda
No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.
~ Frantz Fanon
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.
~ Friedrich Schiller
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
~ Charles Lamb
The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.
~ Donatella Versace
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.
~ Henry Ford
Man is everywhere still in chains.
~ Herbert Read
Abiding in the space of the nature of mind, we not only are free, we are freedom.
~ Tenzin Wangyal