This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
BARBARA DEMINGThe 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.
More Barbara Deming Quotes
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Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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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.
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We cannot live without our lives
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Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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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.
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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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A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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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.
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All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
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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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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one’s fears.
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