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• I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.

  Rachel Cohn

  Girl, Appreciation, Sex

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.24, Egmont UK

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• I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

  Susie Bright

  Feminist, Feminism, Active

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• The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.

  Agnivesh

  God, Empowering, Empowerment

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

  Robin Morgan

  Lying, Men, Groups

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.116, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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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• Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

  Gayle Forman

  May, Honest

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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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• 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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• And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

  John Green

  Perfect, Upset, Leaving

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.572, Penguin

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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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• Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Journey

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• I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

  Lionel Shriver

  Drunk, Apathy, Care

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.174, Profile Books

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• The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Women, Hands, Democracy

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• The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Memories, Giving, Childhood

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern; to make this consideration depend on beneficial consequences for human beings is to accept the implication that the interests of animals do not warrant consideration for their own sakes.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Sake, Spheres

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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 the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

  Robin Morgan

  Running, Giving Up, Men

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and your world; that's why you don't ever see it as it is. Once your eye is completely clean, clean of all the dust, once it becomes a pure mirror, it reflects that which is. And that is truth and truth liberates, but it has to be your own. My truth cannot liberate you, Buddha's truth cannot liberate you. There is only one possibility of liberation, that is your own truth. And all that you have to do is to create a dispassionate eye.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Passion, Mirrors

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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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• The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Example

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• Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Ocean, Teaching

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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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• 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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