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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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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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
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
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Care Combination Commitment Knowledge Love Respect Responsiblity Trust
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
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
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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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
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
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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Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
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
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
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

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 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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