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Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and preactice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#men #patriarchy #relationships #women #freedom

Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production. ↗

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

#egalitarian #equality #freedom #change

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage. ↗

— James Frey

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To die hating them, that was freedom. ↗

— George Orwell

#freedom #hate #freedom

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#good-and-evil #freedom

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

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The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#freedom #space #freedom

Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#freedom #leaving #freedom

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#inspirational #president #freedom

Liberties aren't given, they are taken. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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