Quotes related to Isaiah 61:1
The more oppressed a group perceives itself to be, the more it will want to calculate when liberation will dawn.
— NT Wright
Jesus was not offering a teaching that could be compared with that of other teachers—though his teaching, as it stands, is truly remarkable. He was not offering a moral example, though if we want such a thing he remains outstanding. He was claiming to do things through which the world would be healed, transformed, rescued, and renewed. He was, in short, announcing good news, for Israel and the whole world.
— NT Wright
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
— Nadine Gordimer
Christians should be on the front lines fighting to liberate society from its captivity to secular worldviews.
— Nancy Pearcey
Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.
— Nancy Pearcey
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
— Nelson Mandela
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
— Nelson Mandela
What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts,
— Nelson Mandela
Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.
— Nelson Mandela
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
— Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign.
— Nelson Mandela
The heart was made to be broken.
— Oscar Wilde