Quotes About Liberation Theology

#1. I do remember seeing Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar, one of those. It was a liberation theology venue. Anything radical seemed to be accepted there. I definitely picked up the idea there that you should question authority.

Ian MacKaye

#2. John Paul II made it clear that ... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

Claudio Hummes

#3. Now you're holding her over a bridge. How do you see this playing out, kid?" - Pigpen

Katie McGarry

#4. My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.

Isabel Allende

#5. On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

#6. The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

Henry Ford

#7. Female self-loathing has been handed down throughout the generations

Bryony Gordon

#8. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. Great praxis demands great piety.

Sallie McFague

#10. More than an actor, I am a performer ... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

Shah Rukh Khan

#11. The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Laura Ingraham

#12. The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#13. The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

E. O. Wilson

#14. My brother and I always had jobs and worked from a young age.

Thomas Kinkade

#15. Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.

James H. Cone

#16. I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.

Thom Yorke

#17. So we speak of a Black God, Mother God, Worker God.
This de-mystifies what's been passed on to us! In our process of organization and liberation of our people, it's important to meet a God who is more like us. (Silvia Regina de Lima Silva, p. 105)

Mev Puleo

#18. If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

Gustavo Gutierrez