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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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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
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Act Ego Learning Past
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
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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Black Enough Indeed Women Writing
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation

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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