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Barbara Deming Quotes
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Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. (Barbara Deming Quotes)
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. (Barbara Deming Quotes)
There is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one’s whole being in the determination: this must change. (Barbara Deming Quotes)
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions (Barbara Deming Quotes)
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out (Barbara Deming Quotes)
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously (Barbara Deming Quotes)
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power (Barbara Deming Quotes)
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences (Barbara Deming Quotes)
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am (Barbara Deming Quotes)
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed (Barbara Deming Quotes)
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another (Barbara Deming Quotes)
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat (Barbara Deming Quotes)
We cannot live without our lives (Barbara Deming Quotes)
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations (Barbara Deming Quotes)
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them (Barbara Deming Quotes)
There should be no censorship of mail (Barbara Deming Quotes)
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide (Barbara Deming Quotes)
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created (Barbara Deming Quotes)
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible (Barbara Deming Quotes)
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away (Barbara Deming Quotes)
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive (Barbara Deming Quotes)
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us (Barbara Deming Quotes)
The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors (Barbara Deming Quotes)
The point is to change one’s life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now (Barbara Deming Quotes)
People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation (Barbara Deming Quotes)
There is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one’s whole being in the determination: this must change (Barbara Deming Quotes)
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one’s fears (Barbara Deming Quotes)
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern (Barbara Deming Quotes)
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek (Barbara Deming Quotes)
It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains (Barbara Deming Quotes)
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