Quotes About Liberation

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

Slavery is hell. Freedom is heaven. Deception is warfare. Honesty is peace.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free! - John 8:32

I have never seen the truth not doing the job it promises to do - and that is to set one free.

The truth shall set you free.

Human beings are afraid of very simple things: we fear suffering, we fear mortality. What I was doing in Rhythm 0—as in all my other performances—was staging these fears for the audience: using their energy to push my body as far as possible. In the process, I liberated myself from my fears. And as this happened, I became a mirror for the audience—if I could do it, they could do it, too.

Esos miedos que inventamos son los más peligrosos. De esos tenés que libarte, y con urgencia, porque los miedos que inventamos son los únicos que nos pueden enloquecer.

Esos miedos que inventamos son los más peligrosos. De ésos tenés que librarte, y con urgencia, porque los miedos que inventamos son los únicos que nos pueden enloquecer. (Jules y Jim)

Puedo quitarme los zapatos? - Puedes quitarte lo que quieras. - ¿Incluso las inhibiciones? - Eso antes que nada.

Si estuviera ta seguro acerca de Dios como de ese no-perdón, me estaría condenando. Pero no hay condena. No hay nada. Y la nada puede no ser condena sino liberación.

Si estuviera tan seguro acerca de Dios como de ese no-perdón, me estaría condenando. Pero no hay condena. No hay nada. Y la nada puede no ser condena sino liberación.

No hay que prometer nada porque las promesas son horribles ataduras, y cuando uno se siente amarrado tiende a liberarse, eso es fatal».

No hay que prometer nada porque las promesas son horribles ataduras, y cuando uno se siente amarrado tiende a liberarse, eso es fatal.

When the power comes from within us and we claim it as our own, then we no longer have to affirm ourselves by dominating others. The irony is that we are actually afraid of our own power.

Now that Jesus has come and completed his work, he has made all things clean. The rules have changed. Evolved.

We don't have a good vocabulary for these experiences. They come in variations and degrees, from a slight apprehension of the strangeness of being to the ravishing dissolution of boundaries called enlightenment. A mystical experience, a peak experience, a blurring or merge between self and other, a liberation from the limits of space and time.

There is no life for the enemy apart from what makes life and justice for those they oppress. Love of the enemy animated by Thurman's "vital content" means putting an end to the system of death which enemies create, inhabit, and by which they maintain structures afflicting oppressed peoples.

A counter-theatric to state terror is an effective militant practice toward this end. This is "radical love" in the sense foregrounded by Cornel West, which bases its challenging love of the enemy not just upon the enemy's needs, but upon an advocacy and fight for "the unloved,"[4] for the oppressed who need effective techniques and institutions of justice into which they can be liberated.

Such a liberating transformation in and against Lockdown America is "spectral," to use a term from my previous writings.[5] By that I mean that the counter-theatric to state terror makes demands. It is a spectral haunting of the suffering present. It makes demands and cultivates expectations that often make repressive powers tremble. For the repressed, though, this specter is laden with promise and hope. What does this spectral liberation look like?

American slaves and their descendants have taken the texts of the bible in every sense of the word: embraced them, endured them, seized them, stolen them, caught them and captured them. Allen Dwight Callahan, The Talking Book

People today are lifting up their cries and forging new actions from an oppressive regime in our day. At

A broad definition: transhumanism is a liberation movement advocating nothing less than a total emancipation from biology itself. There is another way of seeing this, an equal and opposite interpretation, which is that this apparent liberation would in reality be nothing less than a final and total enslavement to technology.

Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to address the unique circumstances of the time, the ultimate goal of which is economic egalitarianism and the material liberation of "the masses.