Patriarchy has no gender.
BELL HOOKSEvery terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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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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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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