If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
BELL HOOKSYou can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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