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.
BELL HOOKSThere is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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