The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
BELL HOOKSSometimes 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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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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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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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