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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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
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
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Act Ego Learning Past
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
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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Commitment Love Possible
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
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
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People

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