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"Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."

bell hooks· b. 1952View quote →

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"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."

"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'"

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🇮🇱Natan Sharansky

Politics

Movement to Free Soviet Jewry

b. 1948

"Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace."

"From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh."

"But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees."

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🇺🇸John Lewis (philosopher)

"Anytime you travel through life, baggage is apart of the journey. It’s not about not having baggage, it’s about learning to travel lighter and lighter."

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🇺🇸Timothy Thomas Fortune

"GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: But Dr. Dobson, excuse me for a second. You use the word hate. You said that he's a "God's people hater." How do you back that up?"

"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps."

"Killing, imprisoning or denying the rights of a human being is not injustice against one person; it enchains and kills a whole society."

"During the colonial epoch, the British forced Africans to sing,"

"Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence."

"Animal Rights … In the words of its leaders — huntfacts.com"

"The story of the Narmada valley is nothing less than the story of Modern India. Like the tiger in the Belgrade zoo during the NATO bombing, we've begun to eat our own limbs."

"…Quilting was a method of artistic expression that could also be used to cover people, to keep them warm, but which also put designs together to make them beautiful…"

"But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that."

"The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God."

"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

"As a little girl my mother used to take me with her to her fittings with her very expensive seamstress. I was dazzled by the beauty of the fabrics and the whole procedure. I still remember the feel of expensive taffeta."

"Kelly Tears Up During Poetry Reading From Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman"

"the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by."

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🇺🇸Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East."

"Vernon Richards,from the Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia"

"Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School where, during the 1920s, children caught "talking Indian" suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues."

"Neoliberalism, despite the claim by its adherents that it was simply an economic theory, was from its beginnings a class project articulated on behalf of the interests of capital."

"I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now."

"The state is not a passive thing. If it wants to repress a movement or organization, it does not wait for an excuse, it manufactures one."

"Get rid of those terrible jeans that everybody else wears. And wear something different for a change, so you don't just look like a clone."

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🇬🇧Neil Faulkner (archaeologist)

Politics

1957–2022

13 quotes

Queen Rania of Jordan

Literature

social movement

b. 1970

"To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns."

"Fun Couple of the 21st Century" on Power and Cass Sunstein in Esquire"

5 quotes

🇺🇸Audre Lorde

African American poetry

1934–1992

"Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal."

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Notable Quotes

"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust."

— bell hooks, b. 1952View →

"The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control."

— bell hooks, b. 1952View →

"All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way."

— bell hooks, b. 1952View →

"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."

— bell hooks, b. 1952View →

"Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change."

— bell hooks, b. 1952View →

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