What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.― bell hooks,

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A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.

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As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media. ― Bell Hooks

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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

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When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community. - Dolores Huerta

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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. ― bell hooks,

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Being oppressed means the absence of choices ― bell hooks

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