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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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Attention Bond Person Relationship Rescognize Rescouce Romantic
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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
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
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
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
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded

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