Quotes About Liberation

The first stage in the empowerment of any minority community is the liberation of reformist voices within that community so that its members can take responsibility for themselves and overcome the first hurdle to genuine empowerment: the victimhood mentality.

I want those in what I call the regressive left who are reading this exchange to understand that the first stage in the empowerment of any minority community is the liberation of reformist voices within that community so that its members can take responsibility for themselves and overcome the first hurdle to genuine empowerment: the victimhood mentality.

It was a fucking suggestion. Do you think my world turns on your happiness? Your success? Do what you please. Just make sure you're alive to wipe my ass when I'm an invalid.... the way I told it to Gary later, it was a kind of liberation. Go forth, Daddy Miner was saying, be your own disappointment. There's a whole wide world to fail in.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

The spectacular operations of the PFLP, meanwhile, began to attract legions of young Europeans, who saw in the airline hijackings a willingness to risk everything to achieve liberation. This was a time not only of cold war, but of revolution, inspired in part by massive and worldwide street protests against

All summer they'd been pushing me towards my freedom and now I wanted to claim it

Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?

The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with.

Rescue is the true aim of Zionism—not the "liberation" of the Promised Land but the rescue of the Jews, repeatedly threatened with annihilation.

Now settlers go into "liberated territories" like colonialists, with army support, and take land from the "natives.

I wouldn't be satisfied simply escaping from my prison of silence; I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison. Sometimes I get that way. It's a surprisingly useful frame of mind.

Arab independence was only guaranteed in those lands that the Arabs freed themselves.

I use no lengthened invocation: Here rustles one that soon will work my liberation.

Di?imi s?k?yorum ve kendi sefaletimle alay ediyorum; en çok da farkl? geli?mesi imkâns?z olan bu durumu kabullenmemi sal?k verecek kimselerle alay ediyorum. ?çi saman dolu bu kuklalardan beni kurtar!

Così io vorrei spesso aprire una vena che mi procurasse la libertà eterna.

She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she had never really worn it at all.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams , November 13 1816 }

Truths are not constantly evident in the circumstances to which they refer. They are born - sometimes late. This truth was born with the struggles and wars of national libration. In the light of the newborn truth, the significance of imperialism changed. Its demands were seen to be different. Previously it had demanded cheap raw materials, exploited labour and a controlled world market. Today it demands a mankind that counts for nothing.

What if they found a trapdoor out of this dead universe? A hole? A black hole? A place where the tyranny of time and space couldn't reach?

Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in asylums. Pack off old ones to 'senior communities,' nursing homes. Our children? Keep'em prisoner, baby-sitter as warden. School? Good for fifteen to twenty years. Army afterward. Liberated, we live in prison. No this, no that. Kill us before we die!

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

This was the moment when I understood more clearly than ever before that the liberation struggle of our people was not so much about liberating blacks from bondage," Sexwale said, picking up on the core lesson he had learned from Mandela in prison, "but more so, it was about liberating white people from fear. And there it was. 'Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!' Fear melting away.

It was human nature. You didn't give everything away; if you did, you would have nothing left. There were those who took the view that there was a liberation in the act of confession, but mostly they tended to be the ones who were listening, and not the ones confessing. The only full confessions occur on deathbeds; all others are partial, modified.

If you are seeking the counsel of God on a directional matter in your life, never get so caught up in the specifics of your own situation that you selfishly forget about others. Don't neglect the poor. Think outside yourself. It's liberating! Likewise,