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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

Barbara Deming

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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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Change Mind People
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.
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Choices Enemy Thinking
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
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
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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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Cutting Harm Little People Revolution
It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.
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Able Antagonist Gains Real
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.
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Being Brotherhood Free Men
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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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Great Men Moving Obedience
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely

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