liberation quotes

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.