The Truth About The Truth

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

—Gloria Steinem

#LeadershipTuesdays: Designing Our World By Defining Ourselves And Those Around Us

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are, we can all be freer. It’s about freedom.

--Emma Watson

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage and strengthen women leaders. Today we are featuring Jody Gerson, Chairman/CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG). She has been in the business for over 30 years and has risen through the ranks. This quote kind of sums up the reason why she loves her job and the business:

To check out today's article, "Women in Music 2015: Jody Gerson Named Executive of the Year" by Shirley Halperin in Billboard Magazine, go to Women Making History (Facebook Page) today or click here. For more information on Leadership Tuesdays or WOMEN AT LIBERTY, click here.

The Equality Of All: Where Do You Stand?

"From ordinary women stepping into an extraordinary role, bravely fighting for their right to participate in our democracy, to a coalition of conscience that marched on our Nation's Capital and protested for equality, the last century and a half has been defined by those who stood resolute in keeping lit the flame that burned in the hearts of all those determined to secure what they knew to be their God-given rights."*

 --President Barack H. Obama, 44th President of the United States

*https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/05/presidential-proclamation-150th-anniversary-13th-amendment

Securing Our Freedom...Ralph J. Bunche

"The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure." 

--Ralph J. Bunche

Freedom Is...A Philip Randolph

Freedom is never given; it is won.

--A. Philip Randolph, Civil Rights and Labor Leader

Ease On Down The Road...John F. Kennedy

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

--John F. Kennedy

True Costs of Freedom...@vnona

"We will never be able to fully quantify the real cost in lives and sacrifice of freedom."

--Nona O.

Underwater sculpture, in Grenada, in honor of our African Ancestors who were
 thrown overboard the slave ships during the Middle Passage of the African Holocaust.
  --Artist, Jason DeCaires Taylor

Image source: http://george-geder.blogspot.com/2012/06/real-african-american-genealogy-brick.html

The Cost Of Liberty...W.E.B. DuBois

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." --W.E.B. Du Bois

Freedom...Abraham Lincoln

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

--Abraham Lincoln, April 6, 1859 

Truly Free People

Truly free people have no need to enslave others. When you keep another down, your success is tied to manipulation rather than ingenuity and innovation.

Image source: http://www.free-international.org

True Freedom

To be truly free, you must respect the freedom, freewill, equality and dignity of others. Anything less is not true freedom.  --Nona

Happy Fourth of July, America!



Free...Eleanor Roosevelt

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Real Liberation...Carl T. Rowan

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”

 ― Carl T. Rowan, Journalist and Author