Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
BELL HOOKSWhen 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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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