mutual liberation Quotes

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

It was not only the negro that I freed, but the white man no less.

When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

People in communion liberate each other.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...