Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable.
John Stuart MillTags: liberty women freedom liberation independence
...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...
John GeddesTags: suffering liberation
It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.
Duop Chak WuolTags: morality war liberation republic
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.
Thomas MannTags: freedom time mind forgetfulness liberation space body attachment constraints lethe unattached
One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Islam, they traditionally rank among the best organized and most coherent groupings in society. They constitute ready-made organizations - social-based NGOs, if you will - for maintaining Islamic culture and practices under periods of extreme oppression and for fomenting resistance and guerrilla warfare against foreign occupation. The history of Sufi participation in dozens of liberation struggles is long and widespread across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Sufi groups were prominent in the anti-Soviet resistance, and later against the American in Afghanistan and against US occupation forces in Iraq.
Graham E. FullerTags: politics liberation imperialism islam sufism resistance colonialism muslims middle-east middle-east-conflict
...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.
Erlend LoeTags: universe liberation overwhelming insignificence
Suicide is nothing, but an act of depriving the soul from it's very right to liberation.
Aniruddha SastikarTags: soul suicide liberation right act deprivation self-slaying
Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge.
Israelmore AyivorTags: wisdom education knowledge power people ignorance liberation information liberated educated lack-of-knowledge ignorant-people information-is-liberation knowledge-is-power knowledge-is-the-key people-perish wisdom-is-liberation
Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand [...] The great millions of Africa, and of Asia, have grown impatient of being hewers of wood and drawers of water, and are rebelling against the false belief that providence created some to be menials of others. Hence the twentieth century has become the century of colonial emancipation, the century of continuing revolution which must finally witness the total liberation of Africa from colonial rule and imperialist exploitation.
Kwame NkrumahTags: africa liberation imperialism exploitation rebellion slavery colonialism third-world
Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social inequalities within and across nation-states. Military intervention depends upon a belief in the legitimacy of armed violence in resolving political problems, which in turn depends upon our adherence to particular ideas about what it means to be a man or a woman.
Nadje Al-AliTags: men women war liberation military iraq
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