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Quotes About Liberation

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
~ Corita Kent
I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
~ Christopher Hitchens
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
~ George W. Bush
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.
~ Paulo Freire
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
~ Tawakkol Karman
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
~ Nelson Mandela
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.
~ Steven Biko
I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.
~ Rollo May
Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
~ Samora Machel
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
~ Michel de Montaigne
After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level.
~ Sheikh Hasina
One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts this influence very naturally. From the start, one doesn't realize this. The first thing to know: one doesn't realize one is influenced. One thinks he is already liberated, and one is far from it!
~ Marcel Duchamp
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
~ Wole Soyinka
The thirst for liberation and equality can never come at the expense of dehumanizing other marginalized groups - especially at a time when hate crimes against Jews have increased significantly.
~ Jemele Hill
I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.
~ Ana Tijoux
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.
~ Rosario Castellanos
Yo, sedienta de mí, me detenía en estatuas duplicando el instante fugitivo en cristales y luego reiniciaba mi marcha de Narciso ya entonces como alada liberación de imagen entre imágenes.
~ Rosario Castellanos
no woman is free until the conditions of oppression of women are eliminated everywhere."90
~ Rosemarie Tong
The State is not an instrument of liberation. For this reason we oppose strategies for social change that rely on the power of the State. Whether it is participating in elections, petitioning those in power, or trying to seize State power, we see such strategies as self-defeating.
~ Roy San Filippo
A nossa vida começa justamente com o advento da inutilidade. Pois o momento da inutilidade marca o início da vida de gozo. Nada mais preciso fazer. Travei as batalhas que tinha de travar. Nada devo a ninguém. Estou livre agora para me entregar ao deleite.
~ Rubem Alves
And just as the functions of the bodily organs of plants and animals cannot be arbitrarily altered, so that, for example, one cannot at will hear with his eyes and see with his ears, so also one cannot at pleasure transform an organ of social oppression into an instrument for the liberation of the oppressed. The state can only be what it is: the defender of mass exploitation and social privileges, the creator of privileged classes and castes and of new monopolies.
~ Rudolf Rocker
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
~ Rumi