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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Care Combination Commitment Knowledge Love Respect Responsiblity Trust
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
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
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
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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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
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
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
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
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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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World
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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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
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 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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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

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