Quotes About Liberation

Silence leads to acceptance, which leads to liberation. All of our conditioning is then suspended; so, too, are morals, manners, even simple courtesy. Dogmas, rules, commandments, churches, political parties, opinions, doctrines, ideologies, and gurus fall away. All that remains is reality. All that remains is truth. How free we suddenly feel!

Man, strip off thy garments, cover thy head with ashes, run into the streets and dance in thy madness.

For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

Gandhi's strategy for national liberation never – this is true – condoned violence against the British, but it did include violence with them.

The anti-slavery movement only took off once white people in Europe and America began to see people of African descent not as property but as people.

there is a certain freedom to being totally f#cked...

The liberation of Kuwait in 1991 that seemingly redeemed the military profession was also the event that vaulted Powell to the status of national hero.

Given the brief attention span of the American people, the liberation of tiny Kuwait eclipsed the fall of the Berlin Wall as a historical turning point.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.

The West sees liberation movements as terrorist movements, and that is why I am accused of supporting terrorism: because I support liberation movements.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

The air is the only place free from prejudice.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.