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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.

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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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.
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Commitment Love Possible
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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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner

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