A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving… There can be no love without justice.
– bell hooks
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- Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life. – bell hooks
- The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism. – bell hooks
- Feminist movement is pro-family. – bell hooks
- As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. – bell hooks
- First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men. – bell hooks
- Or they’ll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- 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
- There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom. – Amah Lambert
- I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. – Frida Kahlo
- 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
- I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. – Roxane Gay
- When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape. – 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
- 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
- Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone. – Imre Kertsz
- Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.- – Bell Hooks – Win Quier
- Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself – bell hooks
- Addiction makes love impossible. – bell hooks
- Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit. – Timothy Zahn
- Crime must be brought under control… Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all. – Nelson Mandela
- Patience is a skill that brings beauty. Patience brings strength. Patience brings happiness – Practice patience and you will achieve your goals! – Angie karan
- Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? – bell hooks
- Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. – bell hooks
- Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world. – bell hooks
- To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism. – bell hooks
- Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same. – 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
- True resistance begins with people confronting pain… and wanting to do something to change it. – bell hooks
- Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power. – bell hooks
- 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
- A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes. – Eli Ashpence
- A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- My freedom to say ‘No’ directly underscores your freedom to say ‘Yes’. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT your freedom. – Mamur Mustapha
- Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage. – James Frey
- Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery. – Cameron C Taylor