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• The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Thinking

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• How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Race, Ideas

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• My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

  George Weah

  Fighting, Noble, Causes

  "Weah supporters' riots raise fears for Liberian stability" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2005.

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• Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Perception, Cosmos

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• The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wall, Fire, Air

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• The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.

  Glenn Greenwald

  People, Promise, Way

  "Glenn Greenwald: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 9, 2013.

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• Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Action, Consciousness, Busy

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• Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mystical Experiences, Opposites, Heaven

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.

  Henning Mankell

  Believe, Shoes, People

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Men, Thinking, Want

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• World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Integrity, Rights

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• In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

  Marisha Pessl

  Army, College, Political

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• Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

  Donald Richie

  Loneliness, Poverty, Rich

  Donald Richie (2007). “A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics”, p.47, Stone Bridge Press

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• Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

  Germaine Greer

  World, Slavery, Abandonment

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

  Frantz Fanon

  People, Restoration, Renaissance

  The Wretched of the Earth "Concerning Violence" (1961) (translation by Constance Farrington)

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• Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Reason, Born, Late

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Mother (2003). “Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology”, p.43, Lotus Press

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• Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense anti­human, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation.

  Ellen Willis

  Struggle, Rocks, Singers

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• The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!

  Augusto Boal

  Character, Thinking, Theatre

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• In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.

  Lynn Povich

  Writing, Editors, Stories

  Lynn Povich (2013). “The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace”, p.4, PublicAffairs

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• My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state'. When the left called for 'liberation' what it really wanted was to erase the human slate and begin again. Like everybody else, I see things that need to be improved. I just am mindful of the fact that they can be made a lot worse.

  David Horowitz

  War, America, Perfect

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• I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Facts

  "In Search of a Majority". James A. Baldwin's address at Kalamazoo College in Michigan (February 1960), as quoted in James A. Baldwin "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son", July 1961.

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• According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

  Robert P. George

  Art, Self, Promise

  Robert P. George (2016). “Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. When you have attained that point, neither future nor past, neither birth nor death, neither time nor space exist. It is that NOW which is liberation, which is perfect harmony, to which the men of the past and the men of the future must come.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Past, Men, Space

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1976). “Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth”

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