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Quotes About Liberation

I'd been so caught up in surviving and staying free, that I'd forgotten that freedom was a state of mind.
~ R.J. Prescott, The Hurricane
I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.
~ Lierre Keith
The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.
~ Alan Cohen
Jesus didn't die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin.
~ Paula Hendricks
Meditation on the holy Scriptures, free us from mental slavery.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The only prison we can be is prison of our mind.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Africans must change their mind and actions.The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
~ Alex Grey
I've had enough, this is my prayer, that I'll die living just as free as my hair.
~ Lady Gaga
Anyone, anyone can break loose from his chains. That courage, no matter how deeply buried, is always waiting to be called out. All it needs is the right coaxing, the right voice to do that coaxing, and it will come roaring like a tiger.
~ William Melvin Kelley
Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.
~ William Penn
Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ankle.
~ William Shakespeare
The Second Turning was the Consciousness Revolution, stretching from the campus revolts of the mid-1960s to the tax revolts of the early 1980s. Before John Kennedy was assassinated, no one predicted that America was about to enter an era of personal liberation and cross a cultural divide that would separate anything thought or said after from anything thought or said before. But that's what happened.
~ William Strauss
Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.
~ William Stringfellow
That means, in turn, that this is an experience which shatters time and liberates people from the confinement of time by at once recalling all that has gone before and anticipating all that is to come.
~ William Stringfellow
In truth the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is
~ William Wordsworth
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
~ Winston Churchill
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
~ Wynonna Judd
Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic.
~ x malcolm v
Necesitaba un cómplice, y eso es lo que eres tú. Un aliado en mi vida. Me salvaste, me protegiste, me ayudaste, me liberaste cuando menos sabía de qué santo colgarme.
~ Xavier Velasco
May all beings have happiness and the true causes of happiness; May all beings be free from suffering and the true causes of suffering; May all beings never be parted from the happiness that is without suffering, the great joy of nirvana, liberation; May all beings abide in peace and equanimity, their minds free from attachment and aversion, and free from indifference.
~ David Michie
Every time we do something nice for someone else, even if it is a routine thing they expect, we can do so with the thought 'By this act of love, or of giving happiness, may I attain enlightenment to liberate all living beings.' Every time we practice generosity, whether it is making a donation or nursing a cat, we can think the same thing.
~ David Michie
538 bce, Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylonia and liberated the exiles. He also permitted the rebuilding of the Temple in 520, a date that inaugurates the Second Temple period in Jewish history. From this point forward, the group once known as Israelites may have been designated as "Jews," a term drawn from the
~ David N. Myers