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dismantling the imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy

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We all need to rid ourselves of misguided notions of self-love. We need to stop fearfully equating it with selfcenteredness and selfishness.

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Those of us who were wounded in childhood often were shamed and humiliated when we expressed hurt.

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To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate.

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The inability to connect with others carries with it an inability to assume responsibility for causing pain.

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When parents start out disciplining children by using punishment, this becomes the pattern children respond to.

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it is unlikely that maternal affection will heal the lack of fatherly love.

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Because patriarchal culture has already taught girls and boys that Dad's love is more valuable than mother love,

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Women and female and male children, dominated by men, have wanted them dead because they believe that these men are not willing to change.

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Women and children all over the world want men to die so that they can live. This is the most painful truth of male domination..

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yet all the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

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The word "love" is most often defined as a noun,

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Our confusion about what we mean when we use the word "love" is the source of our difficulty in loving.

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Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation.

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When we love we can let our hearts speak.