Liberation Quotes - Page 20

• Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

  Bobby Sands

  Struggle, Criminals, Labels

  Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone far, far away, O children of my mother; the hills beyond the mists are now hidden from my view, the last traces of the valleys have been flooded by the ocean of serenity, and the paths and trails have been erased by the hand of oblivion. The roar of ocean waves has faded. I no longer hear anything but the anthem of eternity, which harmonizes with the spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Children, Ocean

  10 Copy quote

• My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love You, Race, White

  6 Copy quote

• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Running, Cancer, Heart

  6 Copy quote

• Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Mean, Blessing

  4 Copy quote

• Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Rights, Shopping

  4 Copy quote

• Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, World, Belief

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Political, Movement

  7 Copy quote

• Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?

  Alfred Kazin

  Literature, Pseudo, Spirit

  Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Wife, Income

  4 Copy quote

• The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Writing, Catharsis, Kind

  8 Copy quote

• Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

  George Gilder

  Confused, Women, Movement

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Struggle, Special

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.

  James H. Cone

  Christian, Theme, Indifferent

  James H. Cone (1970). “A Black Theology of Liberation”, p.9, Orbis Books

  77 Copy quote

  Show source

• The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Heart, Likes And Dislikes

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.1070, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

  Anish Kapoor

  Freedom, Artist, Numbers

  20 Copy quote

• Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

  Bill Keller

  Discipline, Movement, Deviation

  4 Copy quote

• Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

  Bill Keller

  Mean, Movement, Ends

  4 Copy quote

• Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

  Peter Singer

  Stress, Animal, Order

  8 Copy quote

• The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.

  Peter Singer

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

  9 Copy quote

• ...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Space, Personality, Humanity

  4 Copy quote

• I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

  Carre Otis

  Believe, Progress, Made

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  193 Copy quote

• 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

  276 Copy quote