Quotes about Liberation
It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When I finally realized that I do have that power, when I swallowed that bitter pill and realized that I had chosen to be miserable, I also realized that I could choose not to be miserable. "At that moment I stood up. I felt as though I was being let out of San Quentin. I wanted to yell to the whole world, 'I am free! I am let out of prison! No longer am I going to be controlled by the treatment of some person.
— Stephen Covey
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
— Nikki Giovanni
Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
— Oprah Winfrey
Not horses," he replied, stepping away from his throne. "Birds.
— Ernest Cline
rolling around in broken glass in my birthday suit.
— Ernest Cline
When men and women get their hands on religion, one of the first things they often do is turn it into an instrument for controlling others, either putting or keeping them "in their place." The history of such religious manipulation and coercion is long and tedious. It is little wonder that people who have only known religion on such terms experience release or escape from it as freedom. The problem is that the freedom turns out to be short-lived.
— Eugene Peterson
Those who parade the rhetoric of liberation but scorn the wisdom of service do not lead people into the glorious liberty of the children of God but into a cramped and covetous squalor.
— Eugene Peterson
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
— John Ortberg
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.
— DH Lawrence
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
— Oprah Winfrey
The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.
— James H. Cone