Lisa Jewell Quotes

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.

What a strange turn of events.

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we dance in the world of these new experiences, only to find that the music soon stops, the dance ends, and we're struggling once again to save ourselves from being thrown back into those conditions.

The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

All women are rebels.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.

Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.