A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
BELL HOOKSWhat we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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