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Quotes About Liberation

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.
~ Jonathan Galassi
I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
~ Mary Harris Jones
I've never liked feeling closed in.
~ Yalitza Aparicio
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
~ Antonio Porchia
Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
~ Kailash Satyarthi
Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'
~ Jonathan Groff
I find clothes so constricting!
~ Raquel Welch
My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.
~ Marshawn Lynch
The emotional weight being lifted just let me run free and commit to it. I have almost been able to refind a joy for running.
~ Mary Cain
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
~ Jack Welch
The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
I must concentrate all my efforts in the attainment of freedom for my people.
~ John Kani
It's fun to cast away concerns you might have about what other people think about you.
~ Taylor Louderman
When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion.
~ Robyn
Power frees us from the chains of conformity.
~ Adam Grant
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
~ Georg Solti
When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival and liberation. Israel, on the other hand, would appear to be conducting an imperialistic campaign of oppression supported and substantially armed by the most powerful nation on earth.
~ Michael Leunig
My dad had this incredible kindness that oozed through every part of his body. He had the ability to look at life positively in spite of what he went through. He was a Holocaust survivor. When he was 15-1/2 years old, he was liberated from the Dachau Concentration Camp by American soldiers who risked a lot to save people they had never met.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.
~ Kehinde Wiley
Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Working as a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you.
~ Molly Crabapple
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
~ Bettie Page
I started swimming. I frolic like Free Willy.
~ John Pinette
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
~ Francois Truffaut