quotes about Liberation
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A society can never be free without women’s liberation
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Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
-- Alan Watts -
The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.
-- Alberto FujimoriSource : "Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages". www.cnn.com. December 22, 1996.
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National liberation is necessarily an act of culture
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We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.
-- Angeles MastrettaSource : "AUTHOR INTERVIEW -- Life and Love in the Mexican Revolution / `Lovesick' author puts a passionate woman in the center of the conflict" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. May 4, 1997.
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A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
-- Barbara DemingSource : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
-- Buchi Emecheta -
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror
-- Carl Levin -
To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.
-- Clara FraserSource : Clara Fraser (1998). “Revolution, She Wrote”, p.120, Red Letter Press
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I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
-- Edward Abbey -
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No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.
-- Elie Wiesel -
I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.
-- Elizabeth CatlettSource : "Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Is Dead at 96" by Karen Rosenberg, www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2012.
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What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
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The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.
-- Gerald JonasSource : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
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If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.
-- Gustavo GutiérrezSource : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
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The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
-- Gustavo GutiérrezSource : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1973). “A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation”
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It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
-- Henrik Ibsen -
Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.
-- Ita Buttrose -
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She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
-- J. Courtney SullivanSource : J. Courtney Sullivan (2009). “Commencement”, p.240, Vintage
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It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.
-- Jack Canfield -
I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.
-- James H. ConeSource : James H. Cone (1970). “A Black Theology of Liberation”, p.9, Orbis Books
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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
-- Jane Fonda -
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
-- Jane RuleSource : Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.140, Open Road Media
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Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.
-- Janusz Korczak -
There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.
-- Jay Michaelson -
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
-- Kwame NkrumahSource : Kwame Nkrumah (1968). “Dark days in Ghana”, Lawrence & Wishart
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With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life
-- Kylie Minogue -
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I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves....
-- Mary DalySource : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.31, Beacon Press
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Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.
-- Max PerutzSource : "The Impact of Science on Society: The Challenge for Education". "Science and Technology and Future Human Needs" by J. L. Lewis and P. J. Kelly, 1987.
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We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
-- Muqtada al Sadr -
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
-- Oscar Romero -
Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.
-- Peter J. CarrollSource : Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.45, Weiser Books
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By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.
-- Peter Singer -
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As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.
-- Pico Iyer -
Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.
-- Reb Anderson -
The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.
-- Reinhard Bonnke -
It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -
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The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.
-- S. N. Goenka -
It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.
-- Susie Bright -
I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation
-- Susie Bright -
She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
-- Tess Gerritsen -
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Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women
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Of course at that time, especially here in America, we were dealing with women's liberation. Things weren't so easy then. Méret Oppenheim wasn't so directly involved in this - she was in her 60s at that point. She found her strength through competing with the great male artists of her time; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp.
-- Rebecca Horn -
I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.
-- Sekou Odinga -
The great thing about not having a script is there's nothing you have to shoot that day. When you start filming, you can shoot anything you want. There's no pressure to shoot anything. Whatever interests you that day is what you're shooting. That's a big liberation that makes it more enjoyable and more relaxed. I think if you have that kind of framework it can make it a much more satisfying thing to work on and to watch as well.
-- Michael WinterbottomSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.
-- Rodney Yee -
I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
-- Ernesto CardenalSource : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
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I was into David Bowie. I attracted long hair and earrings when it was quite a risque thing to do in Dublin. We didn't have the liberation that America and Britain in the '60s but I did always look to England and America, mainly because of the music that came from there.
-- Gavin FridaySource : Source: bigthink.com
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I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.
-- James Tiptree Jr. -
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There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.
-- Jay Michaelson