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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

    Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
   

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.

    Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
   

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.

    Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
   

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

    Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
   

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

    Author: Ahmed Chalabi
   

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

    Author: Ahmed Yassin
   

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

    Author: Alberto Fujimori
   

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

    Author: Alex Grey
   

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

    Author: Allan Bloom
   

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

    Author: Andrew Cohen
   

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

    Author: Andrew Cohen
   

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

    Author: Angela Davis
   

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

    Author: Anish Kapoor
   

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

    Author: Anthony de Mello
   

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

    Author: Archibald MacLeish
   

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

    Author: Archibald MacLeish
   

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

    Author: Arianna Huffington
   

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

    Author: Armstrong Williams
   

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

    Author: Balthus
   

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

    Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
   

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

    Author: Bette Davis
   

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

    Author: Bodhidharma
   

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

    Author: Buchi Emecheta
   

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

    Author: Carl Levin
   

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

    Author: Clara Zetkin
   

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

    Author: Claudio Hummes
   

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

    Author: Corita Kent
   

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?

    Author: David Herbert Donald
   

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

    Author: Derek Jarman
   

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

    Author: Emile Lahud
   

I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.

    Author: Gennifer Flowers
   

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

    Author: George Gilder
   

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

    Author: George Jackson
   

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

    Author: George Weah
   

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

    Author: Golda Meir
   

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

    Author: Hermann von Helmholtz
   

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

    Author: Jane Fonda
   

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

    Author: Jane Rule
   

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

    Author: Jasmine Guy
   

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

    Author: Jean Genet
   

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

    Author: Jeanne Moreau
   

On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

    Author: Joe Slovo
   

The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

    Author: Joe Slovo
   

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

    Author: John Ciardi
   

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

    Author: Karl Liebknecht
   

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

    Author: Kate Millett
   

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

    Author: Kylie Minogue
   

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

    Author: Lajos Kossuth
   

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

    Author: Lajos Kossuth
   

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

    Author: Leon Jouhaux
   

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

    Author: Loretta Lynn
   

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

    Author: Louis Farrakhan
   

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.

    Author: Louis Farrakhan
   

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

    Author: Louis Farrakhan
   

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

    Author: Louis Farrakhan
   

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

    Author: Nathalie Sarraute
   

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

    Author: Nora Ephron
   

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

    Author: R. D. Laing
   

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

    Author: Richard Pryor
   

The Americans may think they have "liberated" Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

    Author: Robert Fisk
   

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

    Author: Robin Morgan
   

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

    Author: Robin Morgan
   

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

    Author: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
   

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

    Author: Sally Schneider
   

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.

    Author: Sandra Cisneros
   

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

    Author: Sandra Cisneros
   

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

    Author: Stanislav Grof
   

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

    Author: Stanislav Grof
   

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

    Author: Susie Bright
   

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

    Author: Susie Bright
   

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

    Author: Susie Bright
   

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

    Author: Theodore Bikel
   

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

    Author: Thomas Frank
   

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

    Author: Tom Glazer
   

Liberation is not deliverance.

    Author: Victor Hugo
   

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.

    Author: Victoria Billings
   

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

    Author: W. Somerset Maugham
   

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

    Author: Walter Ulbricht
   

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.

    Author: Wendell Willkie
   

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

    Author: Wilhelm Reich
   

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

    Author: William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
   

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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

    Author: A. B. Yehoshua
   

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

    Author: Andrew Jackson
   

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

    Author: Barbara Jordan
   

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

    Author: Charles de Gaulle
   

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

    Author: Horace
   

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

    Author: Jesse Jackson
   

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

    Author: Jim Gerlach
   

There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.

    Author: Jo Bonner
   

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

    Author: Jonathan Kellerman
   

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

    Author: Julia Ward Howe
   

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

    Author: Malcolm Gladwell
   

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

    Author: Marcel Proust
   

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

    Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
   

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

    Author: Niklaus Wirth
   

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

    Author: Peter Yarrow
   

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

    Author: Sam Rayburn
   

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

    Author: Samuel Johnson
   

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