The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKSClass is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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 is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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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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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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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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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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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