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

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
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
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
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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Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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 people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
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
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

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

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