All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKSThe political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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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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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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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 practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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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 know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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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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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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