Quotes about Liberation

The scandal is that the gospel means liberation, that this liberation comes to the poor, and that it gives them the strength and the courage to break the conditions of servitude.

The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.

And yet the Christian gospel is more than a transcendent reality, more than "going to heaven when I die, to shout salvation as I fly." It is also an immanent reality—a powerful liberating presence among the poor right now in their midst, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side." The gospel is found wherever poor people struggle for justice, fighting for their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth.

The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.

Any analysis of the gospel which did not begin and end with God's liberation of the oppressed was ipso facto unchristian.

Today unbind the captive,So only are ye unbound;Lift up a people from the dust,Trump of their rescue, sound!

At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

A mother's love liberates.