Quotes About Liberation

It's like living in the Arabian Nights. Being the favourite in the harem. But the one perfume you really want is freedom.

Belief in the liberating power of knowledge has become the ruling illusion of modern humankind. Most want to believe that some kind of explanation or understanding will deliver them from their conflicts. Yet being divided from yourself goes with being self-aware. This is the truth in the Genesis myth: the Fall is not an event at the beginning of history but the intrinsic condition of self-conscious beings.

The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.

You've lost your mind. -Yes, and it's so liberating.

After almost eleven months of captivity, Mary was free again.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

Every single thing that touches your life, religious, socially and politically, must be an instrument of your liberation or you must throw it into the ashcan of history.

Certainty can only be on the side of domination. Certainty is to be found in the homogenisation of time, in the freezing of doing into being. Self-determination is inherently uncertain. The death of the old certainties is to be welcomed as a liberation.

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I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.

It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had town from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

Free as a bird It's the next best thing to be Free as a bird. Home, home and dry Like a homing bird I'll fly As a bird on wings. Whatever happened to The life that we once knew? Can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch That seemed to mean so much? It always made me feel so free.

The nest of college-birds are three, / Law, Physic and Divinity; / And while these three remain combined, / They keep the world oppressed and blind / . . . Now is the time to be set free, / From priests' and Doctors' slavery.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.

Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.