Quotes About Liberation

It's okay, you can do it. Because I am playing with myself as I write this, I hope you're doing the same as you read it. Otherwise there's not much point. Go ahead. Don't be shy or modest, prudish or self-conscious. That's it. It feels nice, doesn't it?

Oh I know what they say about us in town, and I say, the hell with them! I tell you, I don't give a damn. I have got to be an old woman in the twinkling of an eye, and it is sort of a relief, I can tell you. I do what I want to now. Last week I traded all our eggs for ice cream at Holden's Grocery. Now that I have shrunk down little as a child, I figure I might as well act like one. I don't care. I like ice cream. Juney does too. We like to put bourbon in it, and make ourselves a milkshake.

Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.

Like racism and all forms of prejudice, bigotry against transgendered people is a deadly carcinogen. We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. Genuine bonds of solidarity can be forged between people who respect each other's differences and are willing to fight their enemy together. We are the class that does the work of the world, and can revolutionize it. We can win true liberation.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

Did you hear? You are free. Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

Margaret Fuller, the leading antebellum female intellectual, even went so far as to suggest that the anti-slavery party ought to plead for women's rights, too—because, like slaves, women were kept in bondage by civil law, custom, and patriarchal abuse.68 It was an emboldening insight. Elizabeth Cady, daughter of a prominent New York lawyer, had had fantasies when she was eleven years old of leading a life of scholarship and self-reliance.

He was gone, but she wasn't free of him.

However, these criteria, admirable as they are, are insufficient for a liberatory, postmodern science: they liberate human beings from the tyranny of absolute truth and objective reality, but not necessarily from the tyranny of other human beings. In Andrew Ross's words, we need a science that will he publicly answerable and of some service to progressive interests 0991, 29).

software is like sex : it's better when it's free..

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

Education is the bane of life, the foundation of society and the liberation of generations.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.