Liberation Quotes - Page 11

• We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Real, Winning

  Speech at the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria, www.marxists.org. February 24, 1965.

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• Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lying, Faithfulness, Salvation

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• Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of one's own country.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Struggle, Blood

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one's going to help you.

  Kathy Acker

  Girl, Strong, Up To You

  Kathy Acker (2017). “Blood and Guts in High School”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor.

  Friedrich Engels

  Class, Life And Death, Doe

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.128, Haymarket Books

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• How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

  Friedrich Engels

  Thinking, Community, Political

  Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (2004). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

  Joe Slovo

  Struggle, Hands, Class

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• I grew up in the 1970s and I am a product of women's liberation. My generation is really the first one to fully benefit from the movement. It's the same for homosexuals. We are the first generation to really accept that someone is gay. I work with people who are gay and of course I don't think about it. I don't care if someone lives with a man. Twenty years ago it was an issue. Now it's not.

  Pernille Fischer Christensen

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.

  Vasily Chuikov

  War, Battle, Kiev

  "The fall of Berlin". Book by Vasiliy Ivanovich Chuikov, 1968.

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• Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.

  Longchenpa

  Practice, Support, Progress

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• The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Suffering, Way, Path

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.5, Harmony

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• The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Kuwait, Storm

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• I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Change, Years, White

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• The Israelis have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Children, Israel, Nuclear

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• I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.

  James Patterson

  Boys, Playing Games, Ideas

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• It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

  Susie Bright

  Feminist, Messages

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• It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Powerful, Reality

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• If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Freedom, Sleep, Want

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• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Taken, Tyrants, Humanity

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.24

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• The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, President, Allies

  Announces End of Major Combat Operations in Iraq, delivered 1 May 2003 from the USS Abraham Lincoln, off the coast of San Diego, CA

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• The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Army

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Animal, Creative

  Andrew Linzey (2016). “Christianity and the Rights of Animals”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.

  Angela Davis

  Philosophy, Mean, Thinking

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• We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

  Oscar Romero

  Realizing

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• I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Military, War, Believe

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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