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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...

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I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as th...

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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that in...

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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimon...

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Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...

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When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must no...

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A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, t...

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I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly,...

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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for i...

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..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domin...

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Bell hooksFeminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in s...

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Bertrand RussellA History of Western Philosophy

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberatio...

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Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

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An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

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How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a cen...

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And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak,Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair...no...

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Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath t...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that ...

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Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectu...

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The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure pr...

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Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpa...

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Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey th...

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Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in ...

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Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to th...

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Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every p...

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Leon TrotskyTerrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term “method” must...

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Mary DalyBeyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation

Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one t...

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P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling o...

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To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to ...

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Paulo FreirePedagogy of the Oppressed

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that...

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Paulo FreirePedagogy of the Oppressed

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the peo...

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Paulo FreirePedagogy of the Oppressed

P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fe...

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The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

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Paulo FreirePedagogy of the Oppressed

If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it i...

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Peter SingerEthics Into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to thi...

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In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...

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Cuba will be free. I already am.

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need ...

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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

No other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate yearnings for Archaic ...

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Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas...

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Thomas JeffersonLetters of Thomas Jefferson

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroun...

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Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come wi...

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Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see ...

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Thomas SankaraWomen's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle