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Quotes About Liberation

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
~ David Allan Coe
Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.
~ Cat Stevens
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
~ Igor Stravinsky
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.
~ Frederick Lenz
Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.
~ Bei Dao
The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
~ Betty Dodson
In my soul, I am free.
~ Paul Twitchell
Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.
~ Patricia Highsmith
The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.
~ Oprah Winfrey
allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
~ Alice Walker
A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
~ Antonio Porchia
It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
~ Agnes de Mille
Freedom is Letting Go.
~ Deepak Chopra
I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
~ Nelson Mandela
Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
~ Edward Abbey
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.
~ Kate Grenville
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
~ Malcolm X
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
~ Nelson Mandela
Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted
~ Tariq Ramadan
We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.
~ Angeles Mastretta
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.
~ Paulo Freire