The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.
– bell hooks
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- First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader. – Carsten K Rath
- A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving… There can be no love without justice. – bell hooks
- As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. – bell hooks
- Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. – bell hooks
- Feminist movement is pro-family. – bell hooks
- First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men. – bell hooks
- Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life. – bell hooks
- Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same. – bell hooks
- Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? – bell hooks
- Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key – Israelmore Ayivor
- Developing a world class vision is the secret to world-class motivation. – Steve Siebold
- I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. – Roxane Gay
- Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world. – bell hooks
- True resistance begins with people confronting pain… and wanting to do something to change it. – bell hooks
- To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change. – bell hooks
- The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Egalitarianism trumps elitism. Only a selfish fool will tell you otherwise – Jonny Oates
- Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. – Florence King
- Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Sexual liberation is the root of all liberation. – JAdam Snyder
- I tell them that love is always there-“that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find. – bell hooks
- When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. It’s not what you do but how you do it. – bell hooks
- To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism. – bell hooks
- I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that. – bell hooks
- ..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people. – bell hooks
- Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. – bell hooks
- Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. – bell hooks
- When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape. – bell hooks
- Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself – bell hooks
- Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power. – bell hooks
- Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.- – Bell Hooks – Win Quier
- black identities are diverse and complex-¦ – bell hooks
- Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know. – bell hooks
- The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over. – bell hooks
- It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power. – bell hooks
- Addiction makes love impossible. – bell hooks
- We are born with hope. We grow up with hope. We live with hope. We love with hope. We vanish from this world with eternal hope. – Debasish Mridha
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