Always Quote by Bill Keller

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

— Bill Keller

“If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the ways in…

— Peter Singer

“Revolutionary liberation must be a self-liberation that reaches social dimensions, not "mass liberation" or "class liberation" behind which lurks the rule of an elite,…

— Murray Bookchin

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

“No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, if it's stagnant, and without the…

— Assata Shakur

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

— Paulo Freire

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

— Barbara Deming

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a…

— Parker Palmer

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

— Cleve Jones

When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act…

— Charles Eisenstein

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who…

— Paulo Freire