Liberation Quotes - Page 31

• Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

  Corita Kent

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, Feminism

  1974 In the Los Angeles Times, 11 Jul.

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• Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them that although they must submit to capture, search, and confinement, they will not otherwise be harmed and will be set free at the conclusion of hostilities. If we capture wild animals, however, we cannot explain that we are not threatening their lives. A wild animal cannot distinguish an attempt to overpower and confine from an attempt to kill; the one causes as much terror as the other.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Understanding, Suffering

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• There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that profit by supplying laboratory animals and equipment, have been able to convince legislators and the public that opposition comes from uninformed fanatics who consider the interests of animals more important than the interests of human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Long, Important

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• As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer who keeps an animal of comparable intelligence in this manner, however, is more likely to be rewarded with a tax concession or, in some countries, a direct government subsidy.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Dog, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• "Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin."

  Billy Graham

  People, Adoption, News

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

  Angela Carter

  Culture, Language And Power, Instruments

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?

  Bob Hope

  America, Support, Complaining

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• Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.

  Henry Spira

  Animal, Feelings, Suffering

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• I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Favors, Animal Liberation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.

  Bobby Sands

  Struggle, True Identity, Law

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

  Bobby Sands

  People, Dying, Republic

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Gay, Rights

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.

  Adyashanti

  Lonely, Support, Ego

  "Stand Alone" by Adyashanti, www.adyashanti.org. 1997.

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• Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated beings are then Bodhisattvas and Buddhas: "enlightened ones," or "empty dwellers." Their usefulness to others both before and after their physical death, is impossible to conceive. They are nothing but useful energy leading to liberation for all beings still caught in conditioned existence.

  Maura O'Halloran

  Mind, Awakening, Way

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• We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Suffering, Violence

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• Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

  Cesar Chavez

  Brother, Children, Mean

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• The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.

  Adyashanti

  Practice, Way, Belief

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• My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.

  Tony Porter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

  "For women, a seat at the table" by Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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• The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Keys, Long, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

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• Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Men, Liberty

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

  John Henrik Clarke

  Experience, Trash, Instruments

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• This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Freedom, Moving

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

  Dogen

  Truth, Sitting, Gateways

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• A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Strong, Passion, Self

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• What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.

  Carl Sagan

  Caring, Thinking, Wind

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.

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