Liberation Quotes - Page 18

• As far as the underground liberation movement, it won't have any impact at all because they don't really care about those laws. Their activities - sabotaging, liberating animals - are already illegal so just adding one more law won't make much difference.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Impact, Law

  "Analysis: Bill targets animal activists". Article by Steve Mitchell, www.upi.com. November 14, 2006.

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• It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Way, Firsts

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.33, Routledge

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• Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.

  Lady Gaga

  Poison, Half, Lines

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• To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Mean, Men

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Hope is the seed of liberation.

  Jon Sobrino

  Hope, Seeds

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• A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strong, Lying, Confused

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

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• Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

  Thomas Sankara

  Revolution, Social, Comrade

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every womanin the world, for, if the capacity of men to love whom they have been taught to treat as competitors and enemies can transcend their education, the world can begin to heal.

  Jane Rule

  Sweet, Brother, Gay

  Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

  Fred Hampton

  Jail, Revolution, Liberators

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• It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Jewels, Ignorant, Would Be

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• Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Karma, Art, Peace

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• White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

  Assata Shakur

  Fighting, Gun, Thinking

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• The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

  Clara Zetkin

  War, Fighting, Weapons

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• The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.

  Walker Percy

  Dog, Waiting, Tails

  Walker Percy (2013). “The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming: In One Volume”, p.356, Open Road Media

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• There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Dream, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• I do remember seeing Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar, one of those. It was a liberation theology venue. Anything radical seemed to be accepted there. I definitely picked up the idea there that you should question authority.

  Ian MacKaye

  Jesus, Ideas, Superstar

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Past, Reality

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• Liberalism is fundamentally an ideology of liberation that has throughout history risen in protest against the totalitarian and anti-human movements of various kinds, such as communism and nazism. It is therefore natural that the Progress Party with its liberal base once again stands first in the line and takes up the fight when a new fascist ideology as Islamism is spreading throughout the world.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Party, Fighting, Progress

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• In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

  Michael Foot

  Mind, Empires, Opinion

  Morning Star, 1980.

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• Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Tools, Rama

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• It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, School, Buddhism

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• My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.

  Frederick Lenz

  Growing Up, Teenage, Buddhism

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• For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more

  Frederick Lenz

  Fashion, Real, Self

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• Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Space, Giving

  Beautifully Said Magazine Interview, beautifullysmagazine.com.

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• What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

  Alexander Blok

  War, Reflection, Years

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