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Quotes About Liberation

Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed; Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme; Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, But climb.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
In the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
~ Anonymous
Go down, Moses,Way down in Egypt land,Tell old Pharaoh,Let my people go.
~ Anonymous
What do nudists wear on casual Fridays?
~ Anonymous
Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
~ Anonymous
Free at last, free at last,Thank God Almighty, we're free at last.
~ Anonymous
Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.
~ Anonymous
Today, Passover is used as an opportunity to reflect on the things that plague our world, to seek justice for the still-oppressed and even to bring together multi-faiths family and friends under the common banner of universal freedom.
~ Anonymous
There is great power in letting go, and there is great freedom in moving on.
~ Anonymous
In a world where we are all slaves to the laws of gravity, skydivers are proud to be freedom fighters!
~ Anonymous
Words want to be free!
~ Anonymous
Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.
~ Anonymous
Let my people go.
~ Anonymous
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
~ Anonymous
When it does come they will taste for the first time the real meaning of freedom.
~ Anthony Borgia
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
~ Anthony Bourdain
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
~ Anthony Bourdain
As I walked towards travel, that illusion of liberation, I strangely felt myself walking back into childhood.
~ Anthony Burgess
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
~ Anthony de Mello
if you just suppress your desire, and you attempt to renounce the object of your desire, you are likely to be tied to it.
~ Anthony de Mello
When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.
~ Anthony de Mello
It is from the oppression of your programming that you need to be liberated. Only then will you experience that inner freedom from which alone all social revolution must arise for the powerful emotion, the passion that arises in your heart at the sight of social evils and impels you to action, will have its origin in reality, not in your programming or your ego.
~ Anthony de Mello
El amor sólo puede existir en libertad. El verdadero amante busca el bien de la persona amada, lo cual requiere especialmente la liberación de ésta respecto de aquél.
~ Anthony de Mello
Now you will realize that this beggar came to your home with an alms for you—the widening of your heart in compassion and the release of your spirit in freedom. Where before you used to be controlled (these persons had the power to create negative emotions in you and you went out of your way to avoid them) now you have the gift of freedom to avoid no one, to go anywhere.
~ Anthony de Mello