#liberation

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#oppression #oppression

My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#been #bit #country #i #liberation

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#brought #colonialism #come #constituted #countries

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

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

#artist #freedom #himself #huge #huge number

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead. ↗

— Susie Bright

#feminist #liberation #messages #sexual

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. ↗

— John Ciardi

#character #further #goes #his #liberation

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#come #engenders #i #i think #liberation

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#believe #eye #eye for an eye #form #freedom

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#every man #liberation #man #most #need