If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.