You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
BELL HOOKSThe 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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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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