Liberation Quotes - Page 5

• Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Men, Practice

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.56, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I don't care how far we've come with "women's liberation," with all these things. In a man's mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.

  Suze Orman

  Men, Support, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Awareness, Hinduism

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• In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side".

  James H. Cone

  People, Community, Down And

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• Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to the prevailing attitude that dogs and cats and wild animals need protection, but other animals do not. Thus people came to think of "animal welfare" as something for kindly ladies who are dotty about cats, and not as a cause founded on basic principles of justice and morality.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Attitude, Cat

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• With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life

  Kylie Minogue

  Men, Partners, One Man

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

  R. D. Laing

  Break Through, Diversity, May

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 6

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• I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

  Loretta Lynn

  Fans, Helping, Bigs

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• In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

  Tim Robbins

  Country, People, Speech

  "A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation". Tim Robbins' speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., archive.commondreams.org. April 15, 2003.

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• Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Offering, Oxygen, Empires

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• LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Intelligent, Thinking, Numbers

  "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

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• Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

  Arianna Huffington

  Hatred, Promise, Quality

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• A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

  J. G. Ballard

  Drama, Car, Desire

  Penthouse magazine Interview, September 1970.

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• We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Hatred, Joy, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again...
  Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Life, Freedom, Fighting

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• I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

  Susie Bright

  Majority, Like You, Gender

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• What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over.

  Henry Miller

  Pain, Moving, Destiny

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• Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love, make love meditatively. Meditation has to become your life twenty-four hours a day; then only the transformation. Then you go beyond sex, you go beyond body, you go beyond mind. And for the first time you become aware of godliness, of ecstasy, of bliss, of truth, of liberation.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Meditation, Making Love

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• The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.

  Alyson Noel

  Forgiving, Path, Ability

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• When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Bird, Soul

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.90, Vintage

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• I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Giving, Support

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• I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Feminist

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• This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

  George Gilder

  Men, Married, Young

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• In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle against the Inquisition, a battle against religious censorship. And the victory of the Enlightenment in Europe was seen as pushing religion away from the center of power. In America, at the same time, the Enlightenment meant coming to a country where people were not going to persecute you by reason of your religion. So it meant a liberation into religion. In Europe, it was liberation out of religion.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Religious, America

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.org. August 1, 2005.

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