If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
BELL HOOKSIf we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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