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.
BELL HOOKSLove is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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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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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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