Liberation Quotes - Page 25

• The key figure in the Christian faith involves a story of suffering so that others do well. You're only going to get so much liberation, you're only going to get so much transformation, from a system that is based on suffering.

  Anthony B Pinn

  Christian, Suffering, Transformation

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

  Pico Iyer

  Knows

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• Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

  Ramakrishna

  Heaven

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• We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

  Angeles Mastretta

  Long, Acting, Late

  "AUTHOR INTERVIEW -- Life and Love in the Mexican Revolution / `Lovesick' author puts a passionate woman in the center of the conflict" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. May 4, 1997.

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• If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

  Germaine Greer

  Real, Love Is, Self

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• What Thomas DiLorenzo misses is that the other abolitions were either very limited as in the liberation of the serfs by Alexander II or far away from the metropolitan center of those nations - the French and British abolitions were of slavery in the West Indies.

  Allen C. Guelzo

  Missing, Slavery, Far Away

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take a look at them . . . Liberation theology, in Brazil particularly, brought the actual Gospel to  peasants. They said, let's read what the Gospels say, and try to act on the principles they describe. That was the major crime that set off the Reagan wars of terror.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Trying, Principles

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• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Running, Art, Water

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Character, Black, Principles

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• Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

  Golda Meir

  Family, Mothers Day, Children

  1972 In Newsweek, 23 Oct.

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• I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

  Richard Pryor

  Gay, People, Black

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• The U.S. has the most advanced cyber-weaponry on the planet, and t if you look at the U.S. from the perspective of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which runs most of its cyber activities, they look at you and they see Google and Facebook - the two largest depositories of personal data in the world - and they see the reach of the National Security Agency, which has huge digital capacity to know what is going on around the world. So the Chinese would see cyber as an un-level playing field, because the U.S. holds all sorts of advantages.

  Misha Glenny

  Running, Army, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

  Paulo Freire

  People, Decision, Leader

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Without community, there is no liberation.

  Audre Lorde

  Change, Community, Collaboration

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Silence

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• I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Fashion, Long, Firsts

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Revolution, Rebellious

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

  Henrik Ibsen

  World, Spontaneous, Unconditional

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Graham Orton (1966). “The Oxford Ibsen: The lady from the sea. Hedda Gabler. The master builder”

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• Sex and graduation night is a rather common thing in our culture, as a celebration of turning 18 and getting out of school, or just of liberation.

  George Harrar

  School, Night, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Mean, Discipline

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• Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.

  Robert Pape

  Suicide, Religious, Organization

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• There probably aren't a lot of new superheroes around, so whenever one appears, it makes a bit of noise. Really, most of the people who are my friends write characters they loved as children. I get that, as well, because that's why I got into comics. But I'm also taking this massive liberation creatively, going off and doing new stuff. The first and foremost reason I do it is because I think they're fun, and I can do anything I want. I'm not constrained by continuity.

  Mark Millar

  Children, Fun, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Of course at that time, especially here in America, we were dealing with women's liberation. Things weren't so easy then. Méret Oppenheim wasn't so directly involved in this - she was in her 60s at that point. She found her strength through competing with the great male artists of her time; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp.

  Rebecca Horn

  Artist, Easy, Competing

  "The Backbone of Rebecca Horn". Interview with Kurt McVey, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2014.

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• Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

  Paulo Freire

  Commitment, Love Is, Matter

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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