Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"Love is the most revolutionary force."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Love is the most powerful force for change."
Assata Shakur
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"Love your people fiercely."
Assata Shakur
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"I have lived as fully as I know how, and I have loved deeply those I have loved."
Assata Shakur
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"You must love yourself before you can love another."
Stokely Carmichael
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"Love and solidarity are revolutionary acts in a world built on division."
Angela Y. Davis
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"To care is to risk vulnerability."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Love is a form of slavery."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Love is the pivot of the world."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Love should be a choice, not an obligation."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Love in a patriarchal world is complicated."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Love is as essential as food and water to human survival."
Assata Shakur
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
John Lewis
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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
John Lewis
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
John Lewis
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"Forgiveness is not forgetting. It is actually remembering—remembering and not using your right to hit back. That is an act of love."
John Lewis
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"Love as we know it is a fantasy that serves patriarchal interests."
Shulamith Firestone
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"You must stop loving the oppressor and start loving yourself."
Stokely Carmichael
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"Black power is not about hating white people; it's about loving ourselves."
Stokely Carmichael
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"Self-love is not selfishness; it is the foundation of community love."
Stokely Carmichael
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"Love and justice are not separate endeavors."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Love has been weaponized against women as a tool of compliance."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Real love demands equality, not submission."
Andrea Dworkin
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"To love ourselves is revolutionary."
Andrea Dworkin
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"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful woman has passed into and out of your life, then you have never really loved."
Germaine Greer
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"Love, love, love. All you need is love."
Germaine Greer
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"The word love means something different to everyone."
Germaine Greer
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"If you live for love, then love for life."
Gloria Steinem
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"We cannot really love anybody with whom we cannot laugh."
Gloria Steinem
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"Loving is a practice"
bell hooks