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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
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
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
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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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
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
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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
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
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
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Class Dominate Feminism Race Realize Women
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time

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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