There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKSThe political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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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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