Top 25 Liberation Quotes of 87

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

Kwame Nkrumah

Ghana, Independence, Liberation

Kwame Nkrumah (1968). “Dark days in Ghana”, Lawrence & Wishart

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

Fred Hampton

Jail, Revolution, Liberation

South Africa needs a second liberation.

Robert Mugabe

Needs, Liberation, South

National liberation is necessarily an act of culture

Amilcar Cabral

Culture, Liberation

Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.

James H. Cone

Christian, Theme, Liberation

James H. Cone (1970). “A Black Theology of Liberation”, p.9, Orbis Books

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

Abdullah Ocalan

Liberation

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Paulo Freire

Dehumanization, Liberation, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

Thomas Sankara

Revolution, Social, Liberation

Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

Elizabeth Catlett

Art, People, Liberation

"Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Is Dead at 96" by Karen Rosenberg, www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2012.

Hope is the seed of liberation.

Jon Sobrino

Hope, Liberation, Seeds

By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.

Peter Singer

Animal, Planets, Liberation

Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

Oscar Romero

Realizing, Liberation

Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.

Janusz Korczak

Giving, Achievement, Liberation

The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.

Reinhard Bonnke

Renovation, Liberation, Decoration

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

Samuel Adams

Perseverance, Fortitude, Deliberation

Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women, Men, Liberation

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.

Rodney Yee

Yoga, Resistance, Liberation