liberation quotes

I sometimesthink that running hasgiven me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.

- Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
  First Four Minutes.

This is the use of memory: For liberationnot less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution† I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.

- Allen Ginsberg
  Quoted in Gordon Ball (ed)  Allen Ginsberg:  Journals Mid- Fifties (1995),'Meditations on Record Keeping by Poet, Transcribed by Editor'.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

- Corita known as  'Sister Corita' Kent
  In the Los  Angeles Times,11  Jul.

But thisnovel wasnot a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print. Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing came as a great surprise.

- Doris May ne  e Tayler Lessing
The Golden Notebook, preface to new edition.

A test case of US capacity to help a nation meet a Communist 'war of liberation'.

- Robert Strange McNamara
  Of the Vietnam War. Quoted in N Sheehan The Pentagon Papers.

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no-one's likely to do anything about that.

- Golda Meir
  In Newsweek, 23 Oct.