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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

— Alice Walker

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004)

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

The Color Purple (1982)

Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.

Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996)

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