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.
BELL HOOKSIt’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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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