“When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.”

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

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

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.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

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.

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.

Patriarchy has no gender.

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.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

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.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

Living simply makes loving simple.

It doesn’t really matter how rich you are, we’re all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.

All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there’s so many real reasons to hate others.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth