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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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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
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
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
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
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
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
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
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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Feeling Interactive Love Process
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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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
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
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded

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