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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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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
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
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
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
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
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
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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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
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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Attention Bond Person Relationship Rescognize Rescouce Romantic
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner

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