One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness โ in communities, in institutions, among friends.
Bell HooksThere are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.
Bell HooksI think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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