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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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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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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
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
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
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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Civil Rights Country Justice Love Movement Social
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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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
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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Each Other Love Meaning Relationship
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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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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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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Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong

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