Quotes About Liberation

There is a dark side to religious belief systems, which are often fused with ethnic and national identities. In this sense, religion is epiphenomenal—attached to and living off other phenomena. As such, religious belief systems do not always liberate humanity from extraordinary evil. Rather, they are often part of the problem—if not as a primary cause, certainly as something that worsens rather than mitigates conflict.

Dream As a Human and Feel Free or Fly Like a Bird

forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past.

He had said that forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past. We

You hate your job. Oh, come on, don't even. You hate your job and you just told a partner you're handing in your written notice. The world is your oyster, Meredith. Now you just have to figure out what you want to do. How do you feel? Be honest. How does it feel to walk away from two giant parts of your life that were making you miserable?

I kind of like being a slut," Grandma said. "It beats the heck out of being an old lady.

like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.

She never seemed more complete, more sure of herself. Not trying to please anyone anymore. Page 292

Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners? But

I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

I don't know a single conservative donor who is not fervently trying to improve urban schools or provide scholarships in order to liberate pupils from that educational wasteland.

I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.