Liberation Quotes

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Women, Men, Become

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
Emile Lahud

Despair, Belief, Resistance

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
LeRoy Neiman

Life, Love, History

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.
Louis Farrakhan

Fight, Everything, Thought

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
Muqtada al Sadr

Until, Stop, Martyrdom

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
Theodore Bikel

Hope, Respect, Hate

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Allan Bloom

Reason, Worst, Prejudice

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

Revolution, Object, Ideology

And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of the consumer than the liberation of the democratic citizen.
Tony Kushner

Quality, Democratic, Eye

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
Louis Farrakhan

Money, Finance, Country

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Stanislav Grof

Life, Death, Study

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
Angela Davis

Black, Sense, Means

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Anish Kapoor

Freedom, Artist, Himself

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.
Carre Otis

Women, Equality, Hard

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Warren Farrell

Women, Men, Wife

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.
Kylie Minogue

Life, Freedom, Partner

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
Wendell Willkie

Good, Live, Before

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

End, Through, Wonderful

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.
Susie Bright

Sexual, Feminism, Active

I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much.
Janeane Garofalo

Feelings, Enjoy, Walking

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
Armstrong Williams

Greatest, Long, Effort

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.
Ahmed Yassin

Until, Palestine, Continue

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
Ingrid Newkirk

Diet, Heart, Important

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
Francois Truffaut

After, American, Pictures

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

War, Live, Long

It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
Germaine Greer

Women, Strange, Free

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
Jane Rule

Love, Education, Women

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth

Government, Congress, United

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
Lajos Kossuth

Humanity, Fact, United

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
Kate Atkinson

Life, Freedom, Nothing

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Liberation Definition

Pliny the Elder

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us