Quotes About Liberation

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

I like to come and go as I please which means I'm not anxious to dash back from the studio to fix dinner for a man.

Vocally, I'm definitely pushing out more. That feels good. It's very freeing. I've always been very private and consciously private. Now it's kinda like, 'Who cares.' I'm gonna be free and gonna be me. I feel good.

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

I don't know why people like being oppressed.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

I'm not that flashy in private; I'm usually pretty reserved. But on stage, it's about not being afraid of anything - of anyone judging you. It's one place you can be free. So why not sing as loud as you can, hoop and holler and jump around? A show is a moment. When it's done, it's over. I find that extremely liberating.

The Club Kids were about fun. Wild, messy fun - the more debauched, the better.

As I am actually partly Cornish, I am frequently tempted to start some sort of Cornish liberation front in the Home Counties, where our language rights are badly neglected.

I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an inch. It's slow going, man.

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in terms of freedom and liberation.

I'd spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

But at least I am in a place larger than a teacup. I once dwelt in a cup of tea, and on that occasion, I sensed the constraints of the space.

Our embodied and relational minds are the source of our selves, serving to limit and liberate who we become. When any of a combination of challenges to our minds bombards our development, conflicts may arise that bring great suffering and stifle our sense of freedom and connection.