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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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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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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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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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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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