Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
BELL HOOKSLove is an action, never simply a feeling.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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