The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKSLove is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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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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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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