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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.

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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Art Belief Elegance Environment Grace Live Reflection
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
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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Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand
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
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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
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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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
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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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
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
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.

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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.

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