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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
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
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
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
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
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
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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Each Other Love Meaning Relationship
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People

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