Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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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.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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