Quotes About Emancipation

It is impossible for a Westerner to imagine the deadening torpor of a protected life under house arrest. Eventually, one is grateful for the smallest outing outdoors -- a lovely picnic in a burqa, being allowed to watch the men and boys fly kites or swim.

When it is possible to speak a word, it liberates. We do not always remember that it is precisely a word, a Word articulated in our flesh, which has liberated us.

Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself. Bink put his face in his hands and cried.

For instance, I remember someone asking Sophocles, the poet, whether he was still capable of enjoying a woman. 'Don't talk in that way,' he answered; 'I am only too glad to be free of all that; it is like escaping from bondage to a raging madman.

Shane's dad said, I should have left you in the damn cage to fry, you ungrateful little bastard. You're no son of mine. Hallelujah, Shane said softly. Free at last.

Taking someone's will, someone's freedom...it kills the heart, and then the soul.

I don't think we should ever try to meet again; there's such freedom in that. Instead, let our words continue to meet. (See next postcard.)

For love does not set shackles, nor entrap.

succeed, the movement must break the bonds between parents and children, between husbands and wives.

The release from action and suffering, release from the inner and the outer compulsion.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

She said she was going to do it. She said it was the only way she would ever be free.

Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and to be free from the past. Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us. We are bound to the chains of bitterness, tied together, trapped. Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness, that person will be our jailor. When we forgive, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. We become our own liberator.

we choose to either walk the path of revenge and be bound to suffering, or take the path of forgiveness and be freed into healing.

When we can accept both our humanity and the perpetrator's we can write a new story. One in which we are no longer cast as a victim, but a survivor, even perhaps a hero.

This is also a story about what a good thing it is to forgive— a relief to the one who did the bad thing, and a great relief to the one who gets to forgive!

There were some chains you wore because you wanted to.

GIVE ME LIBERTY …

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

No emancipation without that of society.

I know what it means to be a slave, both physically and emotionally.

Saying to someone 'I'm a transsexual' is the most empowering thing I've ever felt in my whole life.

We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.

Ningún hombre debería verse obligado a comprar su libertad.