Liberation Quotes Session #1
When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you." - Fannie Lou Hamer.
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." - Martin Luther King Jr..
“Rest is not the reward for our liberation, nor something we lay hold of once we are free. It is the path that delivers us there.” Cole Arthur Riley
It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate. ~ Bell Hooks
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." - Assata Shakur.