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Vengeance is not the point: change is.

Barbara Deming

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
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Action Doe Nice
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.
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Anger Determination Healthy
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?
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Effectiveness Peace Wife
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Argument Heart Pressure
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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.
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Change Long Running
What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal… We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.
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Lying Peace Thinking
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.
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Diversity Peace Real
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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Anger Determination Thinking
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one’s fears.
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Fear First Thinking
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.
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Need Speak Violent
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

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