Quotes About Liberation

I'm actually a barefoot girl.

When you say 'the man of the house,' the black woman has been the woman and the man of the house, because black men have so often had to spend all of their time and energy working and trying, at least, to give their families the basic needs. So black women, I find, are not really concerned about women's liberation.

Although there is a beast in all of us, we don't show it often. But it is very liberating to be that angry at times. Given a chance, I'm sure people would like to go on a rampage and break everything.

For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.

Si realmente muriésemos, todas nuestras responsabilidades y obligaciones desaparecerían de inmediato. Lo que quedara de ellas se resolvería de algún modo sin nosotros.

All this can dissolve in a moment, when awareness apprehends what is actually unfolding … like the soap bubble being touched by the finger. Liberation from suffering in that very moment. Liberation from greed, hatred, and delusion. Now for the next moment, which, of course, is this one.

There are an infinite number of ways in which people suffer. Therefore, there must be an infinite number of ways in which the Dharma is made available to people." What he meant by Dharma was the universal teachings of the Buddha on suffering and the possibility of liberation from suffering.

He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well.

escape the cycle of birth and rebirth and transcend forever this world of pain and suffering.

Por fin se había liberado de las ataduras, emancipado del mundo opresivo formado por sus padres y los que eran iguales que ellos, un mundo hecho de abstracciones, seguridad y bienestar material, un mundo en el que sentía como una dolorosa amputación la ausencia del latir puro y salvaje de la existencia. Al

At times in its history, Christianity has been an instrument of repression. In our living memory, however, it has also been deployed as a means of liberation and progress.

In their parents, children ideally have sources of protection and comfort and love. Parents can also be sources of irritation, fear, and anxiety. Their deaths thus represent both loss and liberation.

King bore witness to a message that was, in Saint Augustine's phrase, "ever ancient, ever new": an insistence that the testimony of the prophets and the example of Christ could march from the past into what King called "the fierce urgency of now" in order to liberate the future.

while Abraham Lincoln saved for you a country, he delivered us from a bondage.

As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles.

The aim of the Internet and its associated technologies was to "liberate" humanity from the tasks—making things, learning things, remembering things—that had previously given meaning to life and thus had constituted life. Now it seemed as if the only task that meant anything was search-engine optimization.

There was a kind of liberation in jettisoning all thought of being a good person.

The whole state of Maine is unlocked.

I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn't come back

No return to the office! No return, anymore, to anything! Her life had cracked and smashed, at last; let it go, let it go.

The 60's are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

They offered me freedom as a gift. She did. Who told her she had it to offer? I know the freedom you are talking about. I had that freedom the moment I was born. When these people say you belong to me, I own you, it is like the passing of the rain, or the setting of the sun at the end of the day.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

We are not born to accommodate tyranny over our hearts, minds, bodies, or souls. We are here to confirm an abundance of love-inspired possibilities greater than such restrictions.