Quotes About Emancipation

why did you do it? i search and search and i search, and i can't understand it, Willy. I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there'll be nobody home. we're free and clear. we're free. we're free... We're free...

I decided to brazen it out and ask about Musa, where he was, whether they were still together, whether they planned to get married. She said, "I'm not marrying anybody." When I asked her why she felt that way, she said she wanted to be free to die irresponsibly, without notice and for no reason.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors' tactics, the oppressors' relationships.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom. . .To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

It was a long story and the spirt which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. that is freedom. This and nothing else. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pg 101

What are you really seeking?' 'Freedom – to want nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing.

I don't think you can appreciate the simplicity of freedom until you've suffered. She

So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.

Então, amanhã, eu vou embora. E não vou deixar que isso aconteça novamente com alguém. Vou fazer o que eu quiser fazer. Eu serei quem eu realmente sou. E vou descobrir o que é isso. Mas agora eu estou aqui com você. E eu quero saber quem você é, o que você precisa e o que você quer fazer.

It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.

Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Break the lockup of thoughts and live free.

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

I am sick of the dern box! I have not only stepped out of the hateful piece of cardboard, I have burned it and scattered the ashes over my past.

Learn to be You to be Free to be You!

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.