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Quotes About Liberation

The thing is,' he said,' 'that kind of life - the parties, the drugs, the staying up all night - is basically repetitive. It doesn't get you anywhere and it isn't meant to, because what it represents is freedom... And to stay free... you have to reject change.
~ Rachel Cusk
I have wanted to be free my whole life and I haven't managed to liberate my smallest toe. I
~ Rachel Cusk
For me, there was no escaping my physical body. But he could simply run away!
~ Rachel Cusk
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.
~ Tove Lo
There may be many benefits to working outside the home for wages, but it's certainly not been done as an act of liberation. It's an act of economic necessity and has been since the beginning of time.
~ Rebecca Traister
After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.
~ Menachem Begin
I wake up every morning new, free as a bird.
~ Ashley Cole
My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.
~ Daryl Hannah
A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.
~ Maren Morris
I could never be homophobic in any kind of way, dude. I'm such a free bird.
~ CeeLo Green
I've stopped blaming myself for being a woman. I've stopped being apologetic about my sexuality and become comfortable with myself.
~ Kirti Kulhari
It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.
~ Ana Beatriz Barros
There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
~ Cornel West
You can shave my head if you need to; it doesn't bother me.
~ Peta Wilson
I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
~ Bjork
I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.
~ Mike Posner
My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
~ Franz Boas
I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Women of the 60s revolutionised fashion for us. They took the hem lines up so we could feel young, and free, and do things like run for a bus.
~ Dawn O'Porter
I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.
~ Alek Wek
Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
~ E. Joseph Cossman
We are the first on the frontline to go into countries to liberate people in the name of freedom - that's what we've claimed. And now, all of a sudden, they need our help and we turn them away. Yet the rest of Europe stands ready to help. Why are we the first to jump ship?
~ John Barnes
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
~ Nelson Mandela