logo

Quotes About Liberation

He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.
~ Euripides
Casting the body's vest aside,My soul into the boughs does glide.
~ Andrew Marvell
Perdona —dijo Margaret—. Esa es tu única esperanza, cariño. Perdonar significa liberar a un prisionero... y descubrir que ese prisionero eras tú.
~ Andy Andrews
Whatever the case, Paul could not stand by while church leaders became self-righteous reflections of a priesthood that was disappearing. He refused to do nothing as the dual covenant model laid the groundwork for the very hypocrisy his encounter with Jesus liberated him from.
~ Andy Stanley
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
~ Angela Carter
These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...
~ Angela Carter
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
~ Angela Davis
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
~ Angela Davis
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
~ Angelina Jolie
Fly free with me.
~ Angie Sage
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
~ Anish Kapoor
Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.
~ Giorgio Moroder
I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this bloody system that ruined so many people's lives for no reason whatsoever.
~ Martina Navratilova
I'm barefoot whenever I can be.
~ Shakira
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
~ Henry Clay
We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.
~ Andrew Ng
I'm free to leave... go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don't be dependent on anyone else - man, woman, child, or dog.
~ Shel Silverstein
Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
~ Patrisse Cullors
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
~ Os Guinness
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
~ Caroline Knapp
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
~ John Dalberg-Acton
I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger than myself. Black Lives Matter has been that.
~ Opal Tometi
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
~ Rabindranath Tagore