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

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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
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
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
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
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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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
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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Feeling Interactive Love Process
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World
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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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude

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

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