Liberation Quotes - Page 21

• We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Understanding, Ego, Mind

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship and in defence of more transparency, there is one respect in which they have now changed completely. Since the beginning of the 1920's, Islamism was very close in positioning in some respects to 'liberation theology'. But that is no longer the case.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Alternatives, Corruption, Cases

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your own God. That leads us to something that unfortunately has crept into many churches across America, and it is what I call the Social Gospel. The social gospel, that could creep into something that is called Liberation Theology, which is a mixture of leftist, pseudo-Christianity with Marxism.

  Ted Cruz

  Believe, Philosophical, America

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Mean, Men

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Believe, Significant Things

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I have a vision of a world where we don't continue down senseless paths, where we care for our fellow human as much as we care for ourselves. I believe the mere striving for such a world is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner and global security.

  Sam Branson

  Believe, Vision, Foundation

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• One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

  Coco Chanel

  Humanity, Shaving, Should

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

  Coco Chanel

  Paris, Eulogy, Valour

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?"

  Sharon Gannon

  Karma, Yoga, Understanding

  Interview with Alicia Silverstone, thekindlife.com. September 17, 2014.

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• The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

  Jesse Jackson

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

  Bobby Sands

  Struggle, Criminals, Labels

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

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• If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.

  Desmond Tutu

  Giving, Live Your Life, Victim

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then, when people were chanting about liberating ancestral land. I was quick to say that regardless of the future of these territories, liberated they are not, because the term liberation only applies to human beings and not to land, not to real estate.

  Amos Oz

  Real, War, Israel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as he got out of jail. That's a third world reaction and they understand it. Cuba played an enormous role in the liberation of Africa and the overthrow of Apartheid, sending doctors and teachers to the poorest places in the world, to Haiti, to Pakistan after the earthquake, almost everywhere. The internationalism is just astonishing. I don't think there has been anything like it in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course that Kennedy and Johnson knew that if any political solution was permitted in the south, the National Liberation Front would effectively come to power, so strong was its political support in comparison with the political support of the so-called South Vietnamese government.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Government, Support

  Source: chomsky.info

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• If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Struggle, Goal

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the liberation that you seek and part of that vision is very much about desire, about the erotic.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Thinking, Political, Erotic

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Art, Creativity, Character

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  Karl Liebknecht

  Country, War, Long

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• The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling against a West-centric world order. Latin American countries used international law creatively, both to limit the protection of foreign investment by establishing the primacy of national sovereignty in relation to natural resources, and by building support for the norm on non-intervention in internal affairs.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Determination

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The problem of peaceful transition to socialism, we do not discuss it as a theoretical question. But in America it is very difficult, and it is nearly impossible. That is why specifically in America we say that the road to the liberation of peoples, which will be the road of socialism will go through bullets in almost all countries.

  Che Guevara

  Country, America, Peaceful

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.

  George Weigel

  Vocabulary, Political, Argentina

  Source: eppc.org

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• My advise to women is just to love yourself! It's the most beautifully liberating thing that you can do, but it's also the hardest thing you can do, especially if someone has lived with self-hate for years. But it's through meditating or reciting positive affirmations that you can come out of it. It doesn't happen instantly. It took me years and years and years and I'm still on that journey of self-love, but once you do find it, the liberation that you feel is absolutely amazing.

  Harnaam Kaur

  Love You, Journey, Affirmation

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

  Nigel Gibson

  Hatred, Disputes, Schemes

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something else, but also act together. If you are thinking about an elemental solidarity, you are thinking about people acting together and taking decisions together, and thereby beginning to think about what sort of society they want to create. So, there is a need for liberated spaces; that is really difficult.

  Nigel Gibson

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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