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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Care Combination Commitment Knowledge Love Respect Responsiblity Trust
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
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 love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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Feeling Interactive Love Process
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand
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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Act Ego Learning Past
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
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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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
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

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