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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

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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
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
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Control Force Hurt Loss Love Outside Pain Practice Risk Safety
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
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
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
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
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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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
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
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

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